Alekos Flambouraris

The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is meeting the leaders of the opposition political parties to inform them of the four main positions of the Greek side in the Geneva negotiations in the coming Thursday, 12th of January.

Just a few days after Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos sent a letter to Greece's creditors assuring them that the Christmas bonus to low-income pensioners was a one-off gesture, Minister of State Alekos Flambouraris told a private television channel on Wednesday that the government would not hesitate to grant a similar bonus next year if there is a surplus.

It was one year ago - November 2015 - when Alexis Tsipras, freshly re-elected as prime minister, paid a two-day official visit to Istanbul and Ankara.  Perhaps many of us remember the pictures of a Greek prime minister sitting next to the then-prime minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to get directly involved in the privatization of Greece's natural gas grid operator DESFA in the next few days in a bid to end the impasse in the project.

Giorgos Stasinos, the head of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), the organization that awards licenses to engineers and advises the Greek state on engineering problems, on Monday hinted that the chamber might strike Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is qualified as an engineer, from its list of members.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called the leader of main opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, yesterday in an attempt to reach consensus and define a national stance on refugees and migrants issue.

However, a few hours later Mr. Tsipras lashed out at Mr. Mitsotakis, who is in favor of a common stance on refugee issue.

Upon the completion of European Council’s meeting, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that “it was a difficult meeting” on two very important issues, ‘Brexit’ and refugee crisis.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited the Tehran’s Pardis Technology Park (PTP) on Sunday in the framework of his two-day visit in Iran and presented what he called a framework of cooperation between Greece and Iran.

Mr. Tsipras stressed that the two countries could work together in the areas of technology, innovation, energy, trade, culture and shipping.

Greek government had hired German consultants last year in order to help them with the privatizations, as Greek newspaper TA NEA reports today.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had contacted GoetzPartners so as the company to provide Greece its expertise for the HRADF.

Government officials said that the fuss created over German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s comment on Greek economy was unnecessary.