Greece

Gianna Angelopoulos Daskalaki was appointed on Wednesday to serve as the head of the committee in charge of Greece's celebrations to mark the 2021 bicentennial of the country's War of Independence. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed Angelopoulos Daskalaki at Maximos...

The Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles were snapped in on board super-yacht OKTO, owned by the Greek millionaire Theodore Angelopoulos. The photos snapped in Corfu show Charles speaking to the shipping magnate’s wife Gianna Angelopoulos, former...

The Greek actor Michalis Giannatos, who became known through roles of Turkish characters and who is particularly likeable to the Greek audience, especially through his participation in films of the more recent Greek cinema, passed away on the night...

Gianna Angelopoulos' interview on the occasion of her book , My Greek Drama, which is best seller in the U.S.A and is sold translated in Greek as well, was not limited only to the Olympic Games in 2004, but...

The Hellenic Parliament is honoring the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence with two new commemorative events.

Greece is getting ready for what promises to be a spectacular military parade to to celebrate the country's bicentennial.

In anticipation of the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence in 2021, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with 114 mayors on Friday. This was a part of the "Greece 2021" initiative and served as an opportunity to brainstorm...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising the celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece’s War of Independence. Committee President Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki hailed the decision,...

Head of the "Greece 2021" committee on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821) Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki presented the logo of the committee on Friday. The logo shows a ribbon forming the number '2' flowing through...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos will be awarded the Gold Olympic Order medal for his great contributions to the Olympic movement, Olympic ideals and the Olympic legacy, it was recently announced. The award will be given to the...

The Organizing Committee of the ''Greece 2021'' Bicentennial which is tasked with preparing the list of events that will mark 200 years since the Greek War of Independence and the establishment of the modern Greek state, released its first...

On Thursday, Greece officially opened the proceedings of a committee tasked with overseeing preparations to mark the bicentenary of the 19th-century War of Independence against Ottoman Turkey, which led to the creation of the modern Greek state. Prime Minister Kyriakos...

Prince Charles met with former King of Greece Constantine II on Thursday, at the house of British Ambassador to Greece Kate Smith, on the second day of the royal couple's visit, according to Iefimerida.gr news website. Later, prominent statesmen, politicians,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras deems his visit to the U.S. was successful in bringing Greece to the forefront and upgrading its role in international developments, a government source told the Greek Reporter. The Greek prime minister considers that Greece's...

The 2004 Athens Olympic Games cost Greece a total of 6.5 billion euros and did not affect the country's economy, a Greek economic think tank has found. The study on the economic impact of the Olympics on the Greek economy...