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The setback of the Government regarding the row that broke out after Ieronymos publicly objected to the changes in the religion curriculum introduced by Filis, as well as the questioning of Education Minister of the role of the Church during the 1967-74 military dictatorship decided on Monday Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The scheduled discussion in the Greek parliament concerning the security of citizens and the refugee crisis turned into an acrimonious debate between Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and leader of conservative New Deocracy party Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Leftist factions within the ruling SYRIZA party have released a statement denouncing the SYRIZA-controlled Ministry for Citizen Protection after it deemed the arrest of members of a leftist student solidarity group named ‘Left Unity’ was unjustified and unreasonable!

The leaking of a conference call of International Monetary Fund officials on Greece’s latest bailout review has undermined the trust in debt talks, embarrassed the European Commission and infuriated the IMF and Germany, says Reuters.

An article published by newspaper TA NEA claims that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not declare his participation in a company nor an amount of money received from his sister after transferring his share to her.

Leader of Greece’s major opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the timing was ‘politically good’ for the conservative party addressing a ND event Monday in Athens. He added, however, that the timing for the country was problematic and attacked Greek PM Alexis Tsipras accusing him of ‘having told the greatest lies after 1974′ in Greek politics.

According to a poll published in German newspaper ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’ (FAZ),nearly half of the German citizens (49%) were in favour of Greece remaining in the Eurozone.

Former President of Greek Parliament Zoi Konstantopoulou revealed new shocking information about what happened before and after the referendum and claimed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had agreed on signing a memorandum since 2014, when he was leader of the opposition.

The mass protest rallies that took place in almost all cities of Greece seem to have alarmed the Greek government which probably feels that it is trapped between lenders’ representatives and Greek society.

Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos lashed out at Proto Thema newspaper and its online version protothema.gr accusing them of misinforming the public and denied publications according to which Greece’s lenders have asked for new pension cuts.