Greece

Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, arrived on Sunday morning in Greece, ahead of a two-day visit that aims to boost the turbulent relations between Ankara and Athens.

Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Tuesday said the yield on a governmental seven-year bond is evidence of Greece's return to economic regularity. A Greek government decision to open a book-building process for a new seven-year bond loan was met...

Newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced his cabinet a few hours after he was sworn in by President Prokopis Pavlpoulos. Prominent New Democracy lawmaker Nikos Dendias was given the key role of foreign minister while Christos Staikouras was appointed...

Greece’s Alternate Foreign Minister, George Katrougalos, stated on Sunday that it was his "top priority to safeguard the rights of the Greek students and workers" currently residing in Britain. Answering questions concerning Brexit during an interview with state-run AMNA radio station, he...

Alexis Tsipras was forced to cancel plans to visit Mount Athos last week, as a number of influential orthodox clerics vetoed his visit on the grounds that he is an atheist. Kathimerini reports that the Greek Premier was to travel...

On Thursday, Greece finalized the sale of railway operator TrainOSE to Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato, and Greece expects hundreds of millions of euros to be invested in the country’s aging rail infrastructure over the coming years. Ferrovie Dello Stato is...

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, sits down with Greek Reporter's founder Anastasios Papapostolou, to discuss USA - Greece relations, terrorist threats, as well as American investments in tourism, finance, and energy in the Mediterranean country. "The most important American...

Yanis Varoufakis launched a counter-attack against Alexis Tsipras and the SYRIZA government through a letter published on the Guardian website on Monday. The former finance minister was responding to an interview on the same paper by Alexis Tsipras who acknowledged...

Athens will press on with its quest to see Germany pay back some 279 billion euros in war reparations to Greece, Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis said over the weekend during an interview for the Greek newspaper Agora. “We will...

The next meeting of Eurozone Finance Ministers to discuss Greece’s massive bailout will be held in Brussels on May 9, Athens said Thursday. "Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem has informed Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos that the meeting will take place...

Greece and the institutions must stick to the agreement reached last July and the country’s program review must conclude as soon as possible, the head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said on Thursday, after a meeting with Greek...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Deputy Minister for Sports Stavros Kontonis on Friday to continue efforts to reform Greece’s football leagues following increased crowd violence at games. Kontonis canceled this season's Greek Cup indefinitely. Tsipras met with Kontonis earlier to...

A visit to Greece by European Parliament representatives in order to oversee the “democratic implementation” of the new bailout agreement was completed today, with the head of the group, Mr. Roberto Gualtieri, describing it as “positive and successful.” The mission...

"If there are refugees who are able to invest 250,000 euros in the country, they will be treated more favorably in obtaining a residence permit," said Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas. Speaking on the refugee issue on Skai television on Sunday morning,...

According to the Greek financial newspaper Kefalaio, foreign investors holding large Greek bank shares are due in Athens on February 28th for a series of meetings with high level Greek officials, which include Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. According to the same source,...