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Varoufakis responds to Tsipras: It is the greatest achievement of the troika – Calling them “coupons” is self-humiliation
I had proposed a digital euro and Tsipras calls it coupons. I told him this as early as 2014 — I even have the emails. He admitted that the Paris Match photoshoot was “stupid,” but he apologized only to his wife
Tsipras on how he became leader of SYRIZA: Alavanos wanted me as a bit player – We had become a variety-show sketch
The former prime minister describes in Ithaca how he ended up, at age 34, leading a parliamentary party
Tsipras’ dithyramb about Prokopis Pavlopoulos: The “level-headed Minister of Public Order” and the burning Athens of 2008
How Tsipras describes the events following the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, as well as his relationship with Prokopis Pavlopoulos - A relationship so close that years later he proposed him for President of the Republic
Tsipras slams Polakis, Zoe, Varoufakis, Pappas, Kasselakis, admires Prokopis and (a bit) Kammenos, silent about Karamanlis
Alexis Tsipras attempts a major clean-up of people, intra-party factions and circumstances from his ten-year political trajectory in the pages of Ithaca
Political kitchen with “one with everything” and 10 parties: Tables, spits & plucking…
Mitsotakis gathers his MPs and talks about...spit-roasting, while Tsipras carves up the Left – Chaos with Karystianou, Kammenos, Karachalios and Nikolopoulos
SYRIZA: Overwhelming “yes” to proposal for alignment with Tsipras – Only Polakis and two others opposed
Almost the entire Political Secretariat sided with the proposal of SYRIZA’s president - Polakis’s outburst: “This is a split” - Even Nikos Pappas in favor - Complete radio silence from the former prime minister
Famellos in favour of alliance with Tsipras – “It’s a split” replied Polakis
Internal conflict at Koumoundourou sparked by Tsipras’s plan to create a new political movement - “SYRIZA’s relationship cannot be antagonistic,” said Mr. Famellos, provoking an “outburst” from the Transparency Secretary
Looking for the second… Tsipras, Androulakis, or Karystianou?
Tsipras is preparing a list of candidates instead of a party, sweeping SYRIZA, but also its fragments — threatening to push PASOK to third place — Waiting also for the “Karystianou movement,” which pollsters see could go straight to second — Turmoil also on the Right with Samaras
“We ate them together,” 15 years later: When Theodoros Pangalos made history – Phrases by leading politicians of the Transition to Democracy-era that left their mark
From Konstantinos Karamanlis’s “We belong to the West” and Andreas Papandreou’s “Sink the Hora,” to Rallis’s “I don’t want any no’s,” to Sartzetakis’s “We are a nation without brothers,” to Karamanlis’s “five godfathers,” Papandreou’s “There is money,” and Tsipras’s “Go back, Mrs. Merkel”
