Greece

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his full support for the people of Venezuela on Friday during a meeting in Davos, Switzerland with Juan Guaido, the opposition leader and President of the country's National Assembly. Guaido has been officially recognized...

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras met with EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and IMF director Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. Both representatives of Greece's lenders praised the PM for the progress in...

  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday the migration problem is a European and international issue and not the concern of Italy and Greece alone. "It is necessary to face this problem not as a Mediterranean problem that has to...

Greece's former finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou said that the involvement of the International Monetary Fund in Greece's first bailout was decided at a sideline meeting in Davos in 2010. Papakonstantinou spoke on Skai television on Tuesday night where he described...

A few days ago, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said that Greece was not opposed to IMF’s participation in the new bailout program, which his government had signed in August 2015 with the nation’s official creditors. Today, Greek Prime Minister...

Greece’s economic program, the refugee crisis, Greek-American partnership in relation to investments, energy issues, the Cyprus issue and finding a solution on FYROM’s name were the focus of a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and U.S. Vice President...

Greek prime Minister hopes to make some good use of his visit at Davos for the Annual World Economic Forum by advancing Greece’s case on debt restructuring, among other things. He will meet both with the IMF’s Managing Director...

The 2016 Annual World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, will take place this year from January 20 to 23, under the theme "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution." To the surprise of some, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is among the...

Managing Director Christine Lagarde plans to meet with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 21, according to a Bloomberg report. Lagarde and Tsipras will meet on the sidelines of the...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said “yes” to holding a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in Davos, if it is asked of him. Akinci’s statements on Wednesday were made after Anastasiades had made...

Over the last few days people have been trying to figure out which Greek island will be turned into the Davos of Greece. Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas announced that he was planning on creating a summer tourist destination...

The President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, will attend, along with other European leaders, the 45th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that will be held in Davos, Switzerland, between January 21 and 24. According to a...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has arrived in Athens, Greece on Friday, according to reports from Greek news network SKAI. Gates, who is known for his philanthropic and educational endeavors, will be visiting the Greek capital and the islands while on...

Greece presented a letter to the United Nations on Thursday which countered the claims Turkey made regarding the sovereignty of Greek islands in the Aegean to the UN in September of last year. In the Turkish letter, the country claimed...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, along with most other world leaders this week and he participated in two separate panels there on Thursday. The first was about the so-called "Green New...