Nadia Valavani

A government cabinet  meeting is taking place at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Matters to be discussed include various policy statements by Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) deputies in their new posts. They will outline issues to be covered in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ speech at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

By Vangelis Mandravelis

On Wednesday, just days after asking the top executives of sell-off fund TAIPED to quit their posts, Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani surprisingly called on them to stay on until further notice and to postpone any significant decisions on privatizations for at least two to three weeks.

Greece's Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras? meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu in December 2014 marks an important beginning in bilateral relations, Syriza?s foreign relations representative has said.

One of SYRIZA?s key economic policy makers, Yiannis Dragasakis, said Tuesday that his party recognizes Greece?s loan agreements and public debt but that it is seeking adjustments to both.

?We recognize that the country is bound by loan agreements but we want to review them,? he said at an Economist conference in Athens.

If SYRIZA is elected on January 25, it will be asking Greece's foreign creditors for a "technical extension" to the bailout deal, which expires officially on February 28, a candidate for the leftist party in Athens's second district, Nadia Valavani, told Athina 984 radio on Tuesday.