Greek MP

Greek MP Alexis Tsipras has been in the limelight of global media-granted for the wrong reasons- over the past 6 months. To his mother Aristi Tsipras he is still her ‘boy’. In an interview to Greek newspaper ‘Parapolitika’, Tsipras’s 73-year-old mom shares her concerns about the wellbeing of her son. She worries about his health. “He hasn’t been eating or sleeping well lately”, she says.

Greek MP from the main ruling party SYRIZA and alternate foreign minister for European affairs Nikos Hountis announced his resignation on Monday.

He is the first leftist MP to resign since Greece reached an agreement with eurozone leaders on a third bailout on Monday.

The head of the international states department at Fitch ratings agency, James McCormack said it will still be difficult for Greece to reach an agreement with its creditors, even as Greek MP Alexis Tsipras offered to meet most of their demands.

The first same-sex marriage of an EU leader is a reality as of Friday, with Luxembourg Premier Xavier Bettel wedding Belgian architect Gauthier Destenay at Luxembourg’s town hall.

The nuptials come months after the Grand Duchy’s parliament legalized marriage between people of the same gender.

The ceremony for Bettel took place at on late Friday afternoon.

An independent Greek deputy who insulted Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Twitter on Wednesday apologized for his “extreme” language, but he said the sentiment remained.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel took to Twitter on Thursday to insist that relations between him and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and between the two countries “are perfect” after being on the receiving end of a homophobic tweet from an independent Greek MP.