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Germany, which expects to admit 800,000 refugees this year, gave a nod to the Swiss model last week when Chancellor Merkel’s federal government agreed with German regional administrations on distributing refugees across the country and creating a network of centers to...

The border controls went into force late on Wednesday on the motorway connecting the Czech Republic to the eastern German state of Saxony, spokesman Christian Meinhold said.

The fence four metres (13 feet) high being built in addition along its entire 175-kilometre (120-mile) border with Serbia is due to be completed by the end of October or early November, the government says.

Yes. It’s bad. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the former energy minister and leader of the “Left Platform” faction in Syriza, is forming a new movement aimed at overturning the bailout.

Gerovasili refused to give details on a potential early election, but said any action would come after August 20, when Greece has to make a large debt repayment to the European Central Bank. The terms also create problems for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who faces waning...

“The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say”, Tsipras said in a televised address Thursday night.

In Berlin, the government said it expected Athens to press ahead with its reform agenda and the finance ministry said aid disbursements would be delayed should the elections cause any delay in an examination of the programme.

Greece’s partners in the euro currency are debating whether to give that country billions of dollars in new loans, now that the Greek parliament has passed a package of painful reforms and spending cuts.

Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Djisselbloem said that there were “differences” among foreign ministers of Eurozone, but they “managed to solve the last issues”.

If the bailout is not approved by the Eurogroup, it could decide to grant Greece 6.04 billion euros in bridge financing, according to German newspaper Bild, citing a European Commission proposal for the meeting.

Mr Tsipras had delayed a decision on whether to call a new election until after Greece received its first instalment from the new bailout and made a debt repayment to the European Central Bank; it did both on Thursday.

The Greek constitution stipulates that when a government resigns, the president should ask the second and third biggest parties – now the centre-right New Democracy and the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn – to try to form a new administration.

Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras leaves his office in Athens.

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...

Greece met its Thursday deadline to repay EUR3.4 billion to the European Central Bank, the Frankfurt-based lender confirmed, hours after Athens received a 13-billion-euro payment from its newly approved bailout.