Greece

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed a group of youths who have managed in the recent past to overcome cancer and return normal life to his office at the Maximos Mansion today. Mitsotakis gave a warm welcome to the young survivors...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the closure of the IMF office in Athens after meeting Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the Fund, in Washington on Tuesday. Mitsotakis thanked Georgieva for her support of Greece and acknowledged that the...

The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is visiting Skopje on Tuesday, in the first official visit of a Greek Premier to the newly-named country of North Macedonia. Tsipras' visit to Skopje inaugurates a new era in relations between Greece and North...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras today posted a picture of himself on Instagram wearing Greece's national basketball team T-shirt, with Thanasis Antetokounmpo's name written on the back. Tsipras wrote ''respect and pride for those who were born and raised in Greece and made...

  The mother of a young Greek who was murdered last week at Filopappou Hill, opposite the Acropolis, accused Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of "negligence and complicity" in her son's death. The 25-year-old died after he fell from a cliff as he...

Talks between the Greek and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) foreign ministers over the naming issue have failed to produce the results necessary to justify a meeting between the countries' prime ministers, Skopje PM Zoran Zaev said on Monday. Greek Foreign Minister...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and U.S. Vice President Michael Pence discussed bilateral relations, regional issues and developments on Cyprus over the telephone on Monday. According to the White House press release, the U.S. Vice President invited the Greek PM...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is unlikely to agree to a bilateral meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at a European Union summit next week, a German government official said. The chancellor’s aim is to show Tsipras that he is...

Greek government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos characterized the negotiations with the country's lenders as "rough and challenging" after his meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. The coalition government partners' meeting focused mainly on the ongoing negotiations with the Troika, ahead of the next Eurogroup...

Thessaloniki, AP - Greece 's economy is expected to expand in the third quarter for the first time in eight years, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Saturday. In a speech in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Samaras hailed what...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has not yet finalized the main points that he intends to address tomorrow morning when he is going to speak at the opening ceremony of the 79th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), but it is certain that...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says a deputy from his center-right party who has expressed opposition to new austerity measures is no longer part of the parliamentary group and asks that he be stripped of his party membership as...

ATHENS – If old soldiers never die but just fade away, it seems that politicians who lose office slide into college teaching positions. Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose two-year reign ended ignominiously in 2011 when he was...

Greece's prime minister on Friday called on European countries to make a EUR440 billion stabilization fund permanent, in a bid to improve economic governance in the region. "We should now work for a permanent stabilization fund, a new European monetary...

Following the escalation of Turkish provocations on Wednesday, Greece's main Opposition SYRIZA party and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, issued two separate statements with stark warnings against Ankara and its behavior. ''The latest incidents constitute an unprecedented and dangerous escalation,'' Tsipras...