Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras

Greece was the last bastion of stability in a region facing multiple crises and it was time for lenders and Germany to keep their promises regarding the country's debt, so that a positive signal is transmitted to markets and investors, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras told France 24 in a televised interview on Friday.

The Greek government on Thursday said no contact had been made between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and former US President Bill Clinton in the early days following the bailout referendum last year.

The setback of the Government regarding the row that broke out after Ieronymos publicly objected to the changes in the religion curriculum introduced by Filis, as well as the questioning of Education Minister of the role of the Church during the 1967-74 military dictatorship decided on Monday Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The government's strategy of political and social division is potentially catastrophic. It earned ruling SYRIZA votes and there are those who consider division to be a legitimate political tool. Clearly, however, these people don't know their history and fail to realize that Greece has paid dearly for discord ever since the modern state's inception.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated on Saturday his call for snap elections and launched another stinging attack on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

"He is an opportunist that will do whatever he can to remain in power and cannot be trusted in Greece and abroad," Mitsotakis told a meeting of New Democracy's political committee.

As the negotiations with Greece's creditors drag on, the opposition has unleashed criticism against the government with conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK repeating calls for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resign and centrist Potami underlining the risk of snap polls at such a sensitive time.

SYRIZA leadership welcomed with great relief Panos Kammenos decision to back down on Mouzalas’ issue and not asking Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to remove Alternate Minister for Migration Yannis Mouzalas.

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, will chair a meeting between the leaders of the Greek political parties on Friday at 12:00 at the presidential mansion.

The meeting was scheduled after the request of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to inform the opposition on the latest developments and the government’s position on the refugee flows.

The new media legislation passed in the Greek Parliament with 154 votes of the ruling coalition parties – SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) – and the vote of independent deputy Nikos Nikolopoulos, late on Thursday night.

Main opposition New Democracy, Democratic Coalition, Potami and Centrists Union voted against, with 102 votes in total.

Private TV station SKAI’s poll, conducted by the University of Macedonia, shows that seven in 10 Greek citizens are dissatisfied with the policies of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government and its junior partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). 85% of those questioned said that they were dissatisfied, whereas only 6.5% agree with the government’s policies.