Greece

A new tourism campaign featuring the portmanteau "Greekend" from the Greek National Tourism Organization seeks to court European travelers to take weekend trips to the country. Citing the country's beautiful weather and ancient sites, the latest ad campaign promotes Athens...

Dozens of small Greek islands are becoming Covid-free, as the vast majority of residents have been vaccinated, and prepare to welcome tourists in the summer.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis again touted his vaccine certificate initiative during an interview with the Bloomberg news outlet on Monday. Professing that there will be a noticeable improvement in the coronavirus situation by April, the Greek leader stated...

Hundreds of policymakers, diplomats, entrepreneurs, economists and academics from all over the world are expected to tune in for the 31st annual Greek Economic Summit (GES), to be held digitally on December 1-3. The Summit, called "Forging Ahead in Challenging...

  The strict safety measures against the spread of Covid-19 on Greek beaches have been extended until July 31, Deputy Minister of Development and Investments Nikos Papathanasis stated earlier on Thursday. In an earlier interview with ANT1 television, Papathanasis had noted...

Expectations at nearly every Greek tourist destination for a resurgence of British tourists in the summer of 2020 were quashed on Wednesday, after news that the government will continue requiring 14-day quarantines for all people arriving back in the...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis participated in a video conference with seven other heads of state on Thursday, during which he proposed the creation of "safe corridors" which will allow the movement of travelers after the current coronavirus restrictions are...

"The tourism experience this summer may be slightly different from what you’ve had in previous years...(but) you can still get a fantastic experience in Greece, provided that the global epidemic is on a downward path," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos...

Following Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' pledge to open the summer season starting July 1, 2020, the country's Tourism Minister outlined on Monday a plan to make Greece ready to host as many travelers as possible "in compliance with health rules." "We...

Greek researchers from the US' Johns Hopkins University and Ionian University have joined forces to confront the epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease and its related disorders in Greece. Presented by the Greek Initiative Against Alzheimer's (hiaad.org) in a press conference held...

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...

The Greek parliament will open a confidence debate on Tuesday morning, with the vote expected to occur on Wednesday night, parliamentary officials decided on Monday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras initiated the confidence-vote process on Sunday, sending a letter to the...

Israel should take advantage of its currently strong position to resolve the Palestinian problem, while the West must stop "doublespeak and hypocrisy" and contribute to safeguarding Israel's security, Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Monday in New York. The...

The three main conditions that Greece must fulfill to attract healthy business investments are transparency in tenders' procedure, strong state operation framework and financing from the banks, wrote the Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou in his article in...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is preparing a substantial structural overhaul of his cabinet that includes the establishment of new ministries and renaming of others, with his decisions having been approved already by the Council of State. It is uncertain...