Greek government formation, May

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should scrap plans for a referendum on the terms of a cash-for-reforms deal offered by its creditors and try to form a national unity government, the main opposition leader Antonis Samaras said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says that he will not be riled into a political skirmish by responding to main opposition ND party leader Antonis Samaras’ accusations as the whole of Greece knows their role in bringing the country to where it is today.  He says that today will remain in history as a day when eurozone members cast out a member not allowing the leader of a democratic country to exp

Main opposition New Democracy and socialist PASOK are reportedly considering tabling a no confidence vote in Parliament against the SYRIZA-led coalition government, a move that would delay and endanger the holding of a referendum for July 5.

Top PASOK deputy Evangelos Venizelos, a veteran ex-minister and the party’s leader up until last week, on Saturday told Parliament that the government’s surprise proposal for a referendum needs the approval of three-fifths of the legislature’s 300 deputies.

Eurozone ministers meet in Brussels on Saturday for a crunch meeting after a shock call for a referendum by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threw a push to avert a default by Athens into confusion.

Today a new day dawns and calm is needed. The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, after five months of failed negotiations between his government and Greece’s international creditors sowed panic in the middle of the night with the announcement of a referendum.

By Boris Groendahl & Paul Gordon

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that the ?far greater risk? in resolving the Greek crisis is the harm a weak deal could do to the credibility of the euro.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, while arriving before the European Council Summit, made the following statement:

“I think that European history is full of disagreements, negotiations and in the end, compromises. So, after the comprehensive Greek proposals, I am confident that we will reach a compromise that will help Eurozone and Greece to overcome the crisis”.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Monday it was now up to European authorities to find a debt deal to save Athens from default, after the government submitted a reform plan to Brussels.

"The ball is in the court of the European authorities," radical leftist leader Tsipras told reporters after an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels.

Comments after the more-or-less successful conclusion of the Euro summit in Brussels by European and international leaders:

Alexis Tsipras: “Our proposal was accepted as a basis for discussion,” he said after the summit.