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Greek PM rejects extending bailout and seeks loan to keep country afloat

Greece needs a bridge loan not a bailout according to its new prime minister. A defiant Alexis Tsipras has laid out his plans to dismantle what he

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Venezuela shows solidarity with Greece as Maduro invites Tsipras to Caracas

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro took time out from his country’s problems to invite the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Caracas

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Europe Weekly: Tsipras seeks Greek debt deal

Greece’s debt crisis has been dominating debate in Europe this week. Fresh from taking office, leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been

Greece

Greek PM Tspiras warns EU "austerity is not a rule"

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has renewed his determination to do away with austerity measures and accused the ECB of blackmail. In a

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Greek PM Tsipras eyes debt help in Brussels talks

Italy

Tsipras gets support from Italy on the road to Brussels

Greece’s new prime minister is on a tour and today he arrives in Brussels, bringing his ideas on Greece’s economic plight to the heart of the EU, but

Greece

Tsipras faces stiff challenge in scrapping bailout deal

Alexis Tsipras, the new Greek prime minister, might be continuing his campaign to scrap the troika bailout agreement, but it’s Germany which holds

Cyprus

Tsipras rules out Russian aid for Greece

Visiting Cyprus, the Greek prime minister has said that a debt agreement with European partners is "all that is on the table".

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Europe Weekly: Greek election aftermath

A week after the elections in Greece, the new government is trying to wriggle out of the clasp of austerity measures imposed on it by the Troika

Greece

'Positive signs' Greece will work together with lenders to reach deal

The European Parliament president has expressed optimism over reaching agreements between Greece and Brussels on the bailout. Martin Schulz is the

Greece

'We will not continue a policy of catastrophe' says new Greek PM

The new Greek government has made it plain it is serious about rolling back austerity set itself on a collision course with European partners

Greece

Government cleaners in Greece reinstated in first anti-austerity move

Greece's new finance minister announces the reinstatement of some government cleaners

World

Greek novice government defies odds on debt

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Greece: Syriza PM Tsipras sticks to anti-austerity pledges at first cabinet meeting

He promised ‘radical’ change in Greece and, at his first cabinet meeting since winning Sunday’s election, new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras vowed to

Greece

PM Alexis Tsipras tells first cabinet meeting: 'Greece will not default'

Fresh from success in Sunday’s general election, Greece’s new Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras has chaired his first cabinet meeting – setting out the

Greece

Greece: PM Tsipras tells anti-bailout cabinet he is seeking a 'viable and fair' solution with EU

Fresh from success in Sunday’s general election, Greece’s new Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras has chaired his first cabinet meeting – setting out the

Greece

A very academic cabinet, Tsipras government sworn-in

Alexis Tsipras’ new government has been sworn in and is ready to work on its anti-austerity drive for Greece. The new prime minister unveiled his

Greece

Tsipras' anti-austerity government sworn in

Not long after they were named, Alexis Tsipras’ anti-austerity cabinet has been sworn in at a ceremony in Athens. Described by some as unnatural

World

Greece interview: what's next for the Tsipras government?

Euronews reporter Eleni Rizopoulou speaks to our correspondent in Athens Stamatis Giannisis. ER: Finally we have the long awaited new cabinet. What

Greece

New Greek government unveiled with radical economist named Finance Minister

Alexis Tsipras has unveiled his anti-austerity cabinet which is likely to cause some ripples in Brussels and Berlin. Beginning with the all important