Greece

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday briefed political party leaders on this week's visit to the US and his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Mitsotakis stressed the need for national unity in view of developments on...

Outgoing premier Alexis Tsipras on Monday handed over power to his successor Kyriakos Mitsotakis who swept to a landslide victory in Sunday's general elections. Speaking earlier outside the presidential Mansion where he was sworn-in, Mitsotakis told journalists the Greek people...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras paid an official visit to to Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, a full eleven years after former Greek PM Costas Karamanlis' visit in 2008. Tsipras stated that the eleven years since the last visit by a...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced a minor reshuffling of his cabinet on Friday, following decisions by some ministers to run as candidates in local and municipal elections scheduled for May. Georgios Katrougalos, who has been upgraded from his post as...

Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former prime minister of Greece and father of main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, passed away early Monday morning, his family announced. He was 99 years old. Born in the Halepa village of Chania, Crete in 1918, Mitsotakis was...

A parcel bomb that detonated inside the car of former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos left him and two other passengers injured on Thursday

For most Greeks, the picture of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras amid only five state leaders from Latin America and Africa paying homage to the late Fidel Castro in Havana was truly sad. And even more sad was the fact...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent a message to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who recently disputed the Treaty of Lausanne and spoke indirectly of territorial claims. "We will not negotiate a single inch of Greek land," Tsipras said during...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday received German Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel who underlined that his visit comes at a crucial time for Greece and Europe. Gabriel said that their discussion focused on investment possibilities in Greece and...

The days when Alexis Tsipras pretended to be a radical communist are long over. As Prime Minister of Greece, Tsipras has gotten rid of the fiery rhetoric of the past, which was immersed in radical, anti-capitalist discourse, and has...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said that the purpose of his two day visit to Iran is to strengthen relations between the Islamic Republic and Greece, but also made it known that he hopes that Greece can play...

The Greek and Egyptian heads of state are looking to bring the two Mediterranean countries closer through an economic and political partnership. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is on a two day state...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sought to defend the Greek government's viability and performance in an interview with the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) on Monday evening. It has been less than three months since the second SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government was elected to power, yet...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed his SYRIZA parliamentary group on Tuesday afternoon, issuing strong criticism against his political opposition and standing behind his government's achievements thus far. The Greek prime minster also ruled out the possibility of a national unity...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras criticized New Democracy and PASOK's stance during Saturday's political party leaders meeting, which failed to yield a common approach on social security reforms and only managed to generate agreements on the refugee crisis as well as...