Tsipras government

The latest “chink” in the now defunct coalition between radical leftist SYRIZA and the rightist-populist AN.EL party emerged on Friday when one high-profile deputy of the latter, comedic actor Pavlos Haikalis, admitted to owning an … offshore company.

Grece’s high court will reportedly side with a major northern Greece mining operator and against the relevant ministry, determining that the latter delayed approval for technical studies at the gold mines in Skouries and Olympiada.

Main opposition leader Evangelos Meimarakis, the primary rival to outgoing PM Alexis Tsipras in the coming snap election, unleashed a cascade of criticism against the latter in a televised address to members of his party’s Parliamentary group on Thursday morning.

France’s Liberation is the latest major foreign media outlet to detail the Tsipras government’s often disastrous negotiations with European creditors over the past few months, before finally agreeing to a harsher bailout plan that one presented in February and even rejected by Greek voters in a July referendum.

The Greek government on Aug. 18 approved a 1.23 billion euro ($1.36 billion) deal for Germany's Fraport-Slentel consortium to run 14 regional airports, publishing the decision in its official gazette.

The European Commission and Eurogroup head late on Friday praised the same-day deal to extend a three-year ESM stability support program for crisis-plagued Greece, saying eurozone members have “lived up to their commitments.”

The Tsipras government appeared surprised at the number of MPs from its ruling SYRIZA party that didn’t support the memorandum agreement during a Friday morning vote , with the figure now falling under the “psychological barrier” of 120 deputies.

Both top opposition leaders, center-right New Democracy’s (ND) president Vangelis Meimarakis and centrist Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis warned this week against snap elections in the country.
Crisis-plagued Greece last held elections in January, with leftist SYRIZA taking power in a coalition with the rightist-populist Independent Greeks’ (AN.EL) party.

Here’s Thursday’s highlights of Euro leaders’ statements on the “Greek issue”, which appears, possibly, as normalizing:

Merkel

The first “post-Greekment” protest was held outside Greece’s Parliament in central Athens on Monday, attended by more than 400 protesters and mostly organized by the extreme-left and out-of-Parliament Antarsya political formation.

Other groups that participated, as judged by unfurled banners, were workers’ groups, student unions and even members of ruling SYRIZA’s youth wing.