Greece

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday that former Google executive Steve Vranakis has completed his mission in the government as Chief Creative Officer and will now pursue his career in the private sector. In a statement, the Premier thanked...

Suspected Turkish hackers attacked the website of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace on Tuesday, uploading a photo of the Turkish research vessel Oruç Reis which is currently sailing over the Greek continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean. The...

Greece welcomed a decision by the European Central Bank on Tuesday to accept Greek government bonds as collateral as a move “that will further boost liquidity in the economy.” "We welcome the ECB's decision to accept Greek government bonds as...

Former prominent Greek politician and government minister Giannos Papantoniou is set to be released from prison after spending seventeen months incarcerated there. Papantoniou was found guilty of money laundering, a charge that he continues to deny. The Judicial Council of the...

The former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who successfully turned his country into the most advanced digital society in the world during his term in office, will take a position as advisor to Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's Minister of State...

The Greek government should take lessons from the past, said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Saturday while visiting the Turkish-occupied zone in northern Cyprus. Akar was accompanied by the entire leadership of the Turkish armed forces. He visited the...

The new conservative government announced on Tuesday its intention to radically overhaul primary and secondary education in Greece, including the abolition of the controversial measure introduced by the previous leftist administration to pick flag-bearers by draw. Niki Kerameus, Greece's new...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Monday with Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, at Maximos Mansion in Athens. The meeting set forth a six-point plan to improve the conditions under which refugees and...

One of the pre-election pledges of Greece's new Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was that his administration would enforce the anti-smoking laws already in existence in Greece. The nation's first legislation concerning the curbing of smoking went into effect on July...

One of the priorities of the new Greek government is to establish a feeling of security for citizens, who see crime rates rising rapidly and feel helpless in front of criminals. New Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced that the Citizen...

One of the first initiatives taken on Friday by the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, was to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president. The previous leftist administration of Alexis Tsipras had an ambivalent stance on the issue. Whereas,...

One of the first pre-election pledges of New Democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was the abolition of the academic asylum in Greek universities, a controversial issue that plagues several campuses across Greece. The university asylum as a concept was established after...

The European Commission published its ''2019 Spring Package'' on Wednesday, in which it comments on the economic situation of every member state and proposes reforms to coordinate fiscal policy across the Union. For Greece, the Commission focuses on two main...

The Greek government is under renewed pressure over the deadly July 2018 fire at Mati following a new documentary aired on Thursday. The film brought to light the and shortcomings, and at times, outright negligence, of the authorities in...

Award-winning director Costa-Gavras said on Friday that he is "deeply insulted" by allegations of favoritism in receiving state funds to produce a film based on a book written by Greece’s controversial former Finance Minister Yianis Varoufakis. The Greek director, who...