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Carlos Latuff does it again.

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 will receive German Alliance ’90/Greens MEP Ska Keller on Friday afternoon at his office.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to decide in the next 48 hours whether he will allow Parliament to vote on a four-month extension to Greece?s loan agreement or whether he will bypass the House altogether after signs of dissent within his party.

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:

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.

By Costas Iordanidis

At the end of the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA session, the Greek Prime Minister Mr. Alexis Tsipras stated that "Government's function and judgment will define the deal".

It was Greek PM Alexis Tsipras' turn on Wednesday to "preach to the choir" as he took the podium to address his Parliament group on the crucial agreement with eurozone creditors, a development that generated the first spate of internal criticism for the one-month-old SYRIZA government.

"Whoever disagrees with the agreement should say so," Tsipras told the party's MPs.

By Deepa Babington & Angeliki Koutantou

A prominent Greek minister defied his government?s pledge to press on with some state asset sales, revealing the first open dissent within Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s coalition and highlighting the tightrope that the leftist premier must walk.