The success of the Prespes Agreement is the government’s main political goal, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Thursday in an interview with public broadcaster ERT.
The key challenge in the next elections will be either the return to the past in terms of political practices or the pursuit of major changes in order to avoid a new bankruptcy in the future, Interior Minister Alexis Charitsis said late on Monday at a local SYRIZA event.
“The numbers are on our side,” European Parliament Vice President and SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis said in a tweet on Monday, citing an admission by the former head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem that “the Greeks have a case” when they say the pension cuts are a “non-structural” measure.
“Our political differences with ANEL are well known. We have different views on a series of critical issues in national issues. It is not something new,” Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis said on Sunday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
“We have left the difficult times behind us and now it is time for us to reap the fruits of our efforts to get the country out of the memoranda and the tough period of the crisis and surveillance,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday during his speech at the SYRIZA Central Committee.
“SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) are departing but not retreating,” New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed in his speech at the city of Preveza on Tuesday.
The government is determined to press ahead with the ratification of the Prespes Agreement signed by Athens and Skopje and “will not play games”, SYRIZA MP and parliamentary spokesman Christos Mantas said on Friday, talking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) radio station ‘Praktoreio 104.9 FM’.
SYRIZA has no relation with the Centre-Left, stated the leader of the Movement for Change (KINAL) Fofi Gennimata in an interview with Real News on Sunday adding that the country “needs elections right now”.
The government’s goal is the economic and social reconstruction of the country focusing on the reinforcement of wage labour and the continuation of reforms with the view to reorganising public administration and emphasis on improving the investment climate as well as a series of actions to build an effective social state, government spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos […]
The exit from the memoranda is not a typical procedure, but a historical milestone, government Vice President and Economy and Development Minister Yiannis Dragasakis said on Sunday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).