Greek Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras was the only European leader to attend Fidel Castro’s final farewell at Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, Cuba on November 30, 2016. In his passionate speech to the crowd, Tsipras praised Fidel as an “international symbol of struggle and resistance whose example inspired popular struggle across the world for independence, freedom, justice, and dignity”. Photos: ethnos.gr.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras announced one-off measures to ease the burden on pensioners and island residents. Tsipras said the government will distribute a total of 617 million €uros this Christmas to some 1.6 million low-income pensioners. In a nationally televised address, Tsipras said the cash will come from a larger-than-expected surplus in Greece’s primary budget, which excludes the cost of servicing the country’s crippling debt.
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Before flyng to Cuba to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral, Alexīs Tsipras issued a tweet to pay tribute to his comrade: “Goodbye Comandante. Until the peoples’ eternal victory”.
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Pope Francis is greeted by the Greek Prime Minister, Alexīs Tsipras, as he arrives at Mytilene airport, Greece. Photo: Andrea Bonetti/Reuters.
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A boy shakes Pope Francis’s hand as he greets people at the Moria refugee camp near the port of Mytilene, Greece. Photo: Reuters.
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Nearly 200 of 300-seat parliament vote in favour of legislation despite opposition from religious groups and rightwing political parties
Greece has enacted a human rights bill which allows civil partnership agreements between same-sex couples, despite opposition from political parties and the powerful Orthodox Church. |
“Regardless of gender or sexual orientation, all people should have legal right to join their lives together in partnership”, Alexīs Tsipras tweeted. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.
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Greece and the Palestinian Authority are to form a joint ministerial committee aimed at strengthening their relationship, it was announced Thursday.
The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmūd Abbās, revealed the initiative after talks with Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras in Ramallah. It was also announced that Abbās will visit Athens on December 21 and 22. [Read more]. |
Greek Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras is visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah as tensions flare after the Turkish downing of a Russian fighter jet over its border with Syria, and both Israel and Greece have troublesome grievances with the EU, of which Greece is a member state. [Read more].
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Alexīs Tsipras remembering the victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Alexīs Tsipras (@tsipras_eu).
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Lesbos, Greece: Locals help refugees and migrants out of the sea as they arrive on the island...
Photo: Kostis Ntantamis/AP.
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... and a young child is passed to a volunteer lifeguard as another half-sunken catamaran carrying around 150 refugees, mostly Syrians, arrives at the island. Greek authorities say a number of people have died after two boats sank near other islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. Photo: Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters.
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The French President, François Hollande, addresses reporters with the Greek Prime Minister, Alexīs Tsipras in Athens, Greece. Photo: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA.
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Athens, Greece: The prime minister, Alexīs Tsipras, is congratulated by lawmakers after he survived a no-confidence vote. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.
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ATENE – Alexīs Tsipras, ingegnere civile e politico di professione, 42 anni, ha vinto ancora una volta la partita a poker e il suo vecchio ministro delle Finanze, Yanis Varoufakis, studioso di teorie dei giochi all’Università del Texas, ha perso la scommessa di vederlo capitolare nelle urne dopo aver fatto marcia indietro con i creditori. [Read more].
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Greek leftist leader Alexīs Tsipras has won the general election, picking up between 33 and 35 percent of the vote, the latest estimates showed Sunday. [Read more].
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