It would be a way for Tsipras to kick out the hardliners in his party.

They called him a “time waster, gambler and amateur.”

At the European Union summit in Latvia.

But government and academic hostility to entrepreneurship are getting in the way.

Greece’s future was at stake in discussions at the European Union (EU) summit in Riga, Latvia.

Pensions remained a point of contention, with creditors pushing for the abolition of early retirements.

Greece’s poverty rate has climbed more than 20 per cent since 2007.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was declared a honorary citizen of the island.

Last year Sweden became the most recent European Union member to recognise Palestine

Finance Minster Yiannis Varoufakis says he would favour paying pensions and salaries over the country’s creditors.