The UK's Theresa May wasn't the only PM in Europe facing a no confidence measure.  Greece's Alexis Tsipras won a simple majority in a confidence vote, and with it the means to pursue a peaceful resolution to a long-standing dispute.

Tsipras himself called the confidence motion after his nationalist coalition partner Independent Greeks quit the government over the weekend to protest a deal to rename the country just over the border.  The Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia will now be North Macedonia.  But Greek nationalists oppose that, saying the the name Macedonia should only apply to Greece's northern province.  The dispute has been festering ever since Macedonia emerged as an independent country following the break-up of Communist Yugoslavia.

Parliament gave Tsipras 151 votes, which is just enough in the 300-member assembly.  The PM's governing Syriza party has 145 seats in parliament, and he got over the threshold with defectors from the Independent Greeks and independents.

North Macedonian lawmakers approved the renaming agreement last week.  Tsipras will now put the matter before his own parliament, where he will run into some static from conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.  The boss of the New Democracy party believes the deal is a "nationally damaging agreement".