PASOK party

Political fallout continued unabated on Monday following Proto Thema's exclusive story over the weekend revealing that the new leftist Greek government apparently choose "guns over butter" in one high-profile instance.

Self-styled “anti-state” youth again went on a rampage in central Athens on Tuesday around the Athens polytechnic, erecting barricades next to the school and tearing down scaffolding around the building set up to clean a city-block-wide swathe of blackish graffiti around the campus’ southwest corner.

Social PASOK party lashed out at the government on Monday for refusing to bring the extension of a loan agreement with eurozone partners-cum creditors to Parliament for debate and ratification.

Socialist PASOK party on Thursday demanded that Parliament approve a four-month loan extension that Athens requested from eurozone creditors, while at same time launching a stinging attack against ruling SYRIZA.

PASOK charged that the radical leftist government was attempting to bypass democratic procedures and Parliament by not bringing the deal up for approval by MPs.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet on Wednesday with both the Potami and PASOK party leaders, Theodorakis and Venizelos, respectively, in order to brief them on recent developments in talks with eurozone creditors.

Cyprus's former interior minister and his son were jailed in Greece on Wednesday for helping a leading Greek politician take millions of euros in kickbacks from arms deals, according to court officials and documents.

Dinos Michaelides [photo] and his son Michalis were found guilty of money laundering and each sentenced to 15 years in prison, court officials told Reuters.

By Renee Maltezou & Lefteris Papadimas

Greece's Socialist PASOK party could support a government led by the radical leftist SYRIZA party as part of a wider pro-euro alliance to steer the country out of its bailout program, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos told Reuters.

German bond yields saw their biggest daily rise in over a year on Wednesday ? a sign investors believe that any European Central Bank easing measures announced when the ECB meets today may fall short of their high expectations.

By Lefteris Papadimas & Deepa Babington

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says his newly-formed party is open to an alliance with election frontrunner SYRIZA as long as it agrees to hold a referendum on reform policies after Sunday's election.

Greece's coalition government may propose a non-political figure for president in March to seek consensus and avoid snap elections that could derail its economic progress, Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos told Reuters on Tuesday.