Greece

It's not the first time Defence Minister and junior government coalition partner Panos Kammenos has publicly disagreed with his PM, but at a crucial time for the coalition, a potential rift between the two partners could become an issue. During...

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras dutifully stood by his Defence minister and coalition partner Panos Kammenos in a fierce parliamentary debate over the controversial Saudi Arms deal. They were both hammered by opposition parties, and the term "scandal" was often...

National Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said that he takes full political responsibility for the invasion of members of anarchist group Rubicon in his ministry on Friday. Kammenos spoke in the House on Monday and answered to questions asked by opposition...

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos underlined the 'risk of an accident' in the Aegean from the continuous violations of the Greek airspace by Turkish fighters and the air combats that follow, in an interview with Realnews Sunday newspaper. "Greece addresses...

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos stressed the need for consensus and understanding during a speech on Sunday. "In these difficult times we must contemplate and remember that, whatever our differences, there is something much deeper joining us; we are all Greeks...

NATO and the EU should cooperate at a political level to limit extremism, fundamentalism and nationalistic ideaology in the Balkans, Greek National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said at a meeting of EU’s foreign and defence ministers in Brussels on...

Cyprus bid farewell to Defence Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos on Monday, who died on Saturday. He was buried in his home town of Larnaca. Mitsopoulos, the 48-year-old protégé of President Nicos Anastasiades, died after suffering a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. He had only...

Tasos Mitsopoulos, appointed last week as Cyprus’ Defense Minister, was pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon by doctors in Nicosia, a day after after suffering a brain hemorrhage and heart attack that left him in an irreversible condition. The 48-year-old was found...

  The Minister of National Defense of FYROM Talat Djaferi met with his Greek counterpart Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday. It was the first time that a Skopjian Minister of National Defense visited the Hellenic National Defense General Staff. Greece’s Minister of National Defense welcomed...

Former Defense Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Kostas Papacostas, was found guilty of manslaughter on July 9 for the explosion that occurred on the island’s naval base in Mari on the south coast on July 11, 2011, killing...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak will travel to Athens on Tuesday for talks with the Greek leadership over regional developments.  The current Defence Minister is an experienced and seasoned politician in Israel, as he previously served as Prime Minister...

An extraordinary plenary session was convened in Parliament on Thursday to discuss and vote on a proposal -- tabled by ruling PASOK MPs -- to set up a Parliamentary preliminary examination committee to investigate former defence minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos'...

Greek Defence Minister, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, said on Friday that a French frigate would arrive shortly in block 7 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) where French energy giant Total holds a concession with Italy’s Eni. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said...

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 Foreign Minister George Katrougalos announced on Tuesday that a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu has been arranged in Brussels for Wednesday. In addition, he said a follow-up meeting is to take place within the next ten...