Greece
Diplomacy
US Senator Menendez "Concerned" About Chinese Investments in Greece
Senior US Senator Robert Menendez expressed concern over the long-term impact of Chinese investments in Greece in an interview released on Saturday.
In an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), Menendez said that "while Chinese investment in Greece may...
Diplomacy
US Senator Bob Menendez Praises Partnership with Greece; Warns Turkey
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with visiting US Senator Robert Menendez, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at Maximos Mansion on Tuesday.
The Greek premier thanked Menendez for his crucial involvement in promoting Greek-American relations, and...
Cyprus
Pro-Greece Bill's Senator Menendez Meets Greek President, other Officials
Bob Menendez, a United States Senator for New Jersey, met with the President of the Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos and other high ranking officials in Athens on Monday morning.
Menendez is the senator who, together with Republican Marco Rubio, recently introduced bipartisan...
Cyprus
U.S. Senator Menendez Opposes Ambassador Koenig's Statement on Cyprus
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez issued a statement expressing strong opposition to comments made by U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus John Koenig on Wednesday at the University of Cyprus where he said that he did not regard the Cyprus problem as...
Greece
Greek PM Mitsotakis in USA to Settle Daughter at Yale University
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be taking a three day trip to the United States to help his daughter, Dafni Mitsotakis, settle in at Yale University in Connecticut.
Mitsotakis' trip was announced by the Greek government's spokesman Giannis Oikonomou.
"I...
Greece
Greece, US Conclude Joint Military Exercise “Poseidon’s Rage”
"Poseidon's Rage," the bilateral military exercise between military forces from Greece and the US was held from May 28 to June 11.
Diplomacy
Democrats in Greece Look to Biden to Stop Erdogan
Holding that President Trump's diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean has failed the expectations of Americans in Greece, the Greek department of Democrats Abroad are expressing the hope that a Biden win could finally make headway toward satisfying solutions in...
Diplomacy
US Says Greece's Kastellorizo Has Same Rights as Any Mainland Territory
US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt said on Thursday that the Greek island of Kastellorizo has exactly the same continental shelf and EEZ rights as does any mainland territory, in the clearest statement by a US official explicitly endorsing...
Diplomacy
Greece Concerned About Turkey's "Destabilizing Role"
Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis expressed concern over Turkey's destabilizing role in the eastern Mediterranean at a speech in Washington on Thursday.
Addressing the the eighth annual "EU Defence Policy Forum 2019" at the United States Institute of Peace, the...
Diplomacy
Russian Embassy to Greece Blasts Washington in Series of Tweets
In an unprecedented incident, the Russian Embassy to Athens blasted the US Senator Bob Menendez, Washington and the American strategy in the eastern Mediterranean in a series of tweets on Holy Thursday.
The embassy published four different tweets in the...
Greece
Greece Concerned Over Turkey's Acquisition of Russian Air Defense System
Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis on Thursday expressed his concern with Turkey’s purchase of the Russian-built S-400 air defense system.
Apostolakis said in a television interview that Ankara’s acquisition of the system will completely change the situation in terms of...
Archaeology
'Colossus of Rhodes Project' to Revive One of Ancient World's 7 Wonders
Young professionals from Greece, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom have been inspired to take up the ambitious "Colossus of Rhodes Project," aiming to revive one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek...