In his first pre-election interview on wednesday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he fought as hard as he could for a good deal with Greece΄s lenders and that he had to call elections due to the conditions of his mandate having completely changed.

Addressing SYRIZA's Political Secretariat, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday called for the launch "collective, democratic processes" to regroup and resolve the major strategic differences that had splintered the party's Parliamentary group, stressing the need for a party conference as soon as possible.

A TV crew of German public television channel, ARD1, was in Athens focusing this time on a Greek-German cooperation of an artistic nature which ... is not hindered by the " war climate" of recent Eurogroup meetings and Summits.