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Greek voters yesterday returned Alexis Tsipras to power with a strong election victory, ensuring that the charismatic leftist remains Greece’s dominant political figure despite caving into European demands for a bailout he once opposed.

Greece’s former prime minister says he is seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming early elections.

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears yesterday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day.

A caretaker government, led by Greece’s first female prime minister, was sworn in as the country heads to early elections next month, the third time Greeks will go to the polls this year.

Greece’s new prime minister has named the members of her caretaker government as the country prepares for early elections next month.

Greek opposition leaders made zero progress as they pressed on with trying to form a coalition yesterday, despite appeals from home and abroad for a rapid move to elections so the country can deal with its economic and humanitarian crises.

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Tsipras resigns but eyes strong return in vote.

The European Commission has urged Greece to stick to commitments it has made to reform its economy as prime minister Alexis Tsipras called a snap election within hours of new EU bailout cash arriving in Athens.

The German parliament approved a third bailout for Greece yesterday after finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said the country should get “a new start”, while in Athens the government agonised over whether to call a snap election.

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Bailout deal sees Syriza fracture and a confidence vote looming

Greece’s economy unexpectedly returned to growth in the second quarter despite political turmoil and the threat of a Greek eurozone exit, data showed yesterday.

Greece and its international lenders reached a multibillion-euro bailout agreement yesterday, potentially saving the country from financial ruin.

Greece has agreed to harsh terms for a new three-year bailout package with international creditors, Greek and European Union officials said, with a few remaining details to be ironed out.

Greece has agreed on the broad terms of a new three-year bailout package with international creditors, with only a few details left to iron out, officials said.

Grexit no longer represents the potential catastrophe that it once did. After all, the main short-term cost has already materialised, writes Daniel Gros.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has defeated a bid by dissenters in his left-wing Syriza party to push for an end to bailout talks and an exit from the euro.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras says he does not want early elections but rebels within his radical left Syriza party could force his hand.

Greece and rescue lenders are still working out the format of upcoming talks, the country’s labour minister said today, confirming a delay in the negotiations for a third international bailout.

Greece’s most influential think-tank has warned of a sharp drop back into recession in a report that came after parliament approved a second package of reform measures aimed at securing a new bailout from international lenders.

Greece reopened its banks and started the process of paying off billions of euros owed to international creditors in the first signs of a return to normality after a deal to agree a new package of bailout reforms.

The Greek government has ordered banks to open today, three weeks after they were shut down to prevent the system collapsing under a flood of withdrawals, as prime minister Alexis Tsipras looks to the start of new bailout talks next week.

German politicians have overwhelmingly backed a new bailout plan for Greece after chancellor Angela Merkel argued that the cash-strapped country would face chaos without a deal.

Greece got a triple dose of good news yesterday when creditors agreed to open talks on a third bailout package to give the country an interim loan to cover its debts and to provide more support to its closed banks.

Greek politicians are debating an austerity bill ahead of a vote that will condemn the country to years of more budget savings, but is needed to get a desperately needed new bailout.

The Greek deal set off a bitter war of words in Irish politics with the Coalition using it to brand Sinn Féin as economically “stupid”, while Gerry Adams hit back describing the Government’s attitude towards Athens as “obscene”.

The embattled PM must convince parliament to vote in favour of deal and could face open mutiny, writes Kostas Karkagiannis

Greece’s negotiators head to Brussels armed with their reform proposals and parliamentary backing to seek a third bailout, but with the shadow of severe dissent from governing politicians hanging over them.

The Greek parliament has backed government proposals for economic reforms in the hope of ending the country’s debt crisis.

The momentum appeared to be behind Greece striking a deal with its creditors for a €53.5bn three-year bailout in a dramatic somersault for the Athens politicians.

CALLING the bluff of Greek’s European partners, and retorting with an immediate referendum demonstrated Napoleonic verve by prime minister Alexis Tsipras, writes Gerard Howlin. 

Yanis Varoufakis said Greece won’t “extend and pretend” that it can pay its debts, vowing to quit as finance minister if voters don’t support him in Sunday’s referendum.

The lack of any 11th-hour breakthrough in talks between Athens and key eurozone leaders meant markets were little riled by the failure of Greece to meet the repayment to the IMF due yesterday.

Stunned Greeks faced shuttered banks, long supermarkets lines, and overwhelming uncertainty as a breakdown in talks between Athens and its international creditors plunged the country deep into crisis.

Greece’s default on its debt to the IMF could prove to be the first step in it effectively leaving the euro, proving that the currency union is not set in stone.

Next Sunday’s referendum in Greece — that could well decide their future in the euro — will be the first in the country in over four decades, but exactly what will be put to the electorate is still an open question.

Mohamed A El-Erian warns that the Greek crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, and the rise of populist political parties threaten to converge into a devastating gale bearing considerable consequences for Europe

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras lashed out at Greece’s creditors yesterday, accusing them of trying to “humiliate” Greeks, as he defied a drumbeat of warnings that Europe is preparing for his country to leave the euro.

Greece is willing to compromise to reach a deal with its EU/IMF creditors that is acceptable to both sides and is ready to negotiate until the end of June to achieve this, the Athens government said yesterday.

The EU’s exasperation with Greece burst into the open, yesterday, when its chief executive rebuked leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras and warned that time was running out to conclude a debt deal to avert a damaging Greek default.

Greece delayed repayment of an IMF loan yesterday and a deputy minister said Athens might call snap elections to break an impasse with lenders that threatens to push the country into bankruptcy and out of the euro.

Greece became the first country to defer a payment to the IMF since the 1980s as its game of brinkmanship with creditors goes down to the wire.