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Greece?s opposition parties have called on SYRIZA and its Attica Governor Rena Dourou to publicly condemn a leftist councillor after she launched a verbal assault on a journalist via Twitter.

Clashes between police and demonstration followed on Thursday evening the first anti-government protest against the Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

As many as 450 people took to the streets, and 50 of then took part in the unrest that followed suit. Police were pelted with stones and petrol bombs, and vehicles were set ablaze.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday referred to a daily "battle" for the next four months, speaking to this ruling SYRIZA party's secretariat.

During an extensive debate on the new loan agreement extension and negotiations between Athens and its creditors, Tsipras reportedly ticked off the government's objectives during negotiations, namely, to:

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis (photo) in Athens on Tuesday in the wake of the latter?s comments on Sunday urging the leftist leader to turn down austerity demands by the country?s foreign lenders.

Jevons Global founder and CIO Kingsley Jones point blank told CNBC on Monday that the Greek debt “is not repayable in this lifetime”.

“We have to be realistic here. Greek debt is now 175 percent of gross domestic product (GDP); it’s higher than it was when this whole business first started,” he emphasized.

A meeting of eurozone financial ministers is scheduled for Friday, in order for a solution to be reached for the crisis in Greece.

Informal division has been observed, as Germany largely relies on the support of Finland and Netherlands, and perhaps Portugal and Spain that have already taken the bailout road, but never had the chance to renegotiate.

The arduous negotiations between the EU and Greece over a temporary loan to resolve Athens? bailout crisis has reawakened fears of a "Grexit", or Greek exit from the single currency bloc.

Here are in three questions some of the issues at stake:

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras won the confidence vote in Greek parliament on Tuesday. He is to form a government consisting of his left-wing party SYRIZA and coalition partner, the righ-wing conservatives from ANEL.

By Lucy Meakin

Greece?s government bonds may decline after the European Central Bank restricted direct access to its funding lines, adding to pressure on the newly-elected government to moderate its anti-austerity policies.

The new Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis announced on Friday that his government was not willing to continue negotiations with the troika of international creditors.

Varoufakis made this statement during a news conference following a meeting with the President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem in Athens, daily Kathimerini reports.