Any continuation of political instability beyond January 26 will be detrimental to the country, the leader of To Potami, Stavros Theodorakis, said in a speech in the town of Ioannina on Tuesday.

SYRIZA does not recognize memorandums, said SYRIZA finance shadow minister Giannis Dragasakis, on Tuesday night, speaking at the Economist Conference, also making it clear that "the Troika will not tell us what to do," and essentially signaling that when forming a government, SYRIZA from the day after the elections, the Troika will not even come to Athens to complete the assessment of the Greek fiscal adjustment program.

A prolonged period of consultation and negotiation with our partners without any clear result and time of completion, and, if there were any maximalistic demands, not taking into account what the creditors' side could give or any unilateral actions, raises the risk of not only creating a funding problem for the country but of derailing the economy, Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis said on Tuesday.

Ο πληθυσμός της Γερμανίας ανήλθε σε 81,1 εκατομμύρια το 2014, η τέταρτη ετήσια συναπτή αύξηση, ενισχυμένη από την μεγαλύτερη εισροή μεταναστών εδώ και πάνω από δύο δεκαετίες, ανακοίνωσε σήμερα η Ομοσπονδιακή Στατιστική Υπηρεσία.