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Venizelos' Reward For Backing Samaras

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who withdrew his opposition to the closure of ERT, will see a number of his party's officials named ministers by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who is planning to shake up his Cabinet in...

Canberra Asks Athens to Step Up VISA Agreement

The Vice President of the Australian Parliament, Steve Georganas of Greek descent, reiterated that Australia is ready to sign an intergovernmental agreement with Greece on the tourist visas about the working permit, but "Athens is delaying the procedures." "Both the...

Azerbaijan, Greece Co-operate On Tourism

Seeing Azerbaijan conducting aggressive ad campaigns to lure tourists, Greece is planning to work together on tourism programs. That came as Greek Foreign Minister Avramopoulos went to Baku. He said in an interview with the Azerbaijan Press Agency that one...

Nazi Debt To Greece Could Ease Crisis

With Greece deciding to press for some 160 billion euros ($208.45 billion) it says it's owed in WWII reparations for damages and forced loans to the Nazis, a commentary in Germany’s influential newspaper Die Welt said Germany should consider...

Kerry Plans State Visit To Athens

US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to conduct an official visit to Greece in mid-May, diplomatic sources told Kathimerini after Kerry’s meeting with Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels...

Schaeuble Rejects WWII Reparations For Greece

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a hardliner insisting on harsh austerity measures in Greece in return for international aid - much of it supplied by his country - said Greece will never reparations for damage inflicted by the Nazis...

Turks Invited To Take Over Greek Factories

The chairman of the Greek-Turkish Business Council, Dimitris Papanicolaou, has told the Anatolia news that Turkish companies could take over factories closing in Greece in a last-ditch bid to keep them open and keep people working. "Every day 1,000 people...

Greece Nixes Turkish Bid On Cyprus

Reacting swiftly and negatively, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos rejected out-of-hand a plan from his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu for a two-state solution on divided Cyprus if Greek Cypriots move alone to exploit oil and gas reserves off the...

Avramopoulos on Hagia Sophia's Renovation

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely monitoring both the developments concerning Hagia Sophia of Istanbul and the reversal of the Turkish Government’s politics against Christian monuments in its dominion," reported the Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos in a document forwarded...

Turkey Disputes Greek Territorial Waters

Just a couple of weeks after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara to try to settle differences over territorial waters and oil and gas exploration in the Aegean, the two countries are...