Alexis Tsipras
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Neo-Nazi leaders of Greece’s Golden Dawn sentenced to 13 years
- Europe
- October 14, 2020, 18:39
The neo-Nazi leaders of Golden Dawn have been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a court in Athens, at the end of a historic hearing likened to the Nu(...)

Greek court rules far-right Golden Dawn leaders ran criminal gang
- Europe
- October 7, 2020, 11:23
A Greek court has delivered an overwhelming conviction against Golden Dawn, finding the neo-fascist party guilty of operating a criminal gang that bru(...)

Greek political traits mask grassroots concerns of local life
- Europe
- September 8, 2019, 15:22
The 19th century American historian Henry Adams may have exaggerated when he called politics “the systematic organisation of hatreds”. In a country l(...)

Greek election: Yanis Varoufakis is back in the game
- Europe
- July 8, 2019, 10:47
Remember Greece’s leather-clad, motorcycle-riding finance minister who clashed repeatedly with his hardline German counterpart during the standoff ov(...)

Tsipras bows out as new Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis takes over
- Europe
- July 8, 2019, 08:17
Greece’s outgoing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has handed over power to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a former banker who navigated the centre-right New Dem(...)

Resurgent centre-right party poised for victory in Greek election
- Europe
- July 5, 2019, 16:16
As the sun sets over the Acropolis, bathing the monument in the gentle light of a dying day, Kyriakos Mitsotakis ascends the podium, punching the air (...)

Investors taking a punt on Greece are being rewarded
- Economy
- July 5, 2019, 07:53
Investors taking a punt on the most-indebted nation in Europe are being rewarded. Greek bonds have returned over 20 per cent this year to those willi(...)

Greece’s deep problems are impossible to ignore
- Europe
- July 2, 2019, 01:00
I was told recently that the Greek community in Ireland disapproves of me because I am not a true “philhellene” – meaning, someone who loves Greece – (...)

Who is in the running for the EU's top jobs?
- Europe
- June 25, 2019, 01:00
Top jobs – the rules and the traditions Every five years, at the beginning of a new term of the European Parliament, the European Council, which is m(...)

Turkish drilling off Cyprus coast prompts talk of ‘targeted measures’
- Europe
- June 21, 2019, 17:34
The European Council’s willingness to contemplate measures against Turkey over its illegal drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus has been m(...)