Tsipras: "Austerity is not a rule"

Alexis Tsipras advantage of the official return of the Greek parliament on Thursday morning to remind its principles.

The meeting began with the traditional swearing-in of 300 members of the new parliament following the elections on 25 January.

With, again and again, the international obligations of Greece in the background.

Alexis Tsipras responded immediately to the friction between his finance minister and his German counterpart:

"We will respect the European rule of balanced budgets, but I want everyone to understand this well: austerity is not a rule, does not one of the fundamental European principles."

Some MPs were sworn in before the Ieronimos Archbishop, head of the Greek Church, others were on the Koran ... The majority who wished to pay civil manner oath only.

Some deputies in custody, Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi Greek party, received permission to leave their prison and come participate in the swearing-in ceremony.

The centrist party To Potami for its part came for the first time in the Chamber, with seventeen members.

In Athens, our correspondent Stamatis Giannisis:

"He acted in a very solemn event for the Greek parliament, but the trouble will start soon for MPs as they will be required to take the most important decisions in the recent history of the country."