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The new Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced late Tuesday included few changes to key ministry posts.

As those measures are felt, I can imagine resentment building toward the prime minister, especially after reports that his eldest son was enrolled at one of Greece’s most prestigious and expensive private schools and that Tsipras and his wife Peristera flew off to a summer...

“I am resigning because I have now exhausted the mandate which the public gave me in January’s general election”, Tsipras said during his televised address on Thursday night.

Tsipras was to make an announcement Thursday night, another government official said, while he was expected to also visit the country’s president – a necessary formality in calling early elections, for which he would have to step down as prime minister. With a...

Amid a growing revolt from the ranks of his own Syriza party and discontent about the course of Greece’s necessary reforms, Greek state broadcaster reported that prime minister Alexis Tsipras will call snap elections after a meeting with his senior advisors, happening now...

“He said he was forced to do so because a majority of Greeks wanted to stay in the eurozone, and this could not be achieved in any other way. The move to go to elections allows Tsipras to clarify things, and to separate his government from the dissidents”, commented...

But while the term “flip-flopper” may have cost John Kerry the US presidency in 2004, for Mr. Tsipras, the label has not yet been pinned to his lapel.

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. Tsipras is listening to advice from government colleagues who are recommending that the polls should be held within September as well as those advocating that the snap...

A Greek minister gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the government will call a confidence vote following a rebellion among lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party over the country’s new bailout deal.

Greek crises has many unanswered questions and silent reservations, where the bailout plan of €86 billion could still be scraped and further developments may experience criminal proceedings, regarding the former finance minister.

“We are satisfied with the smooth and constructive cooperation with the Greek authorities, and that should now allow us to progress as swiftly as possible”, Mina Andreeva, a European Commission spokeswoman, said in Brussels.

Investors can confidently await the referendum, because 21,000 people demonstrated in favor of a “yes” vote on Tuesday night in Athens, according to Greek police statistics.

During a late-night debate in Athens, Mr Tsipras acknowledged that the measures were a long way from the anti-austerity platform his party was elected on.

He did not name names but may have been referring to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has made no secret of his skepticism about Greece’s fitness to stay in the euro.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will address the European Parliament on Wednesday after European leaders gave his debt-stricken country a final deadline to reach a new bailout deal and avoid crashing out of the euro.