Politics

Still reeling after last month's huge nationwide demonstrations over government responsibilities for the February, 2023, Tempi train disaster that claimed the lives of 57 young people, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has launched a political counter-attack against opposition parties that have lodged charges of a government cover up of the causes of the crash.

Regarding the continuous seismic activity in Santorini Mitsotakis noted that scientists are now describing it as “an unprecedented phenomenon, with fluctuations in its intensity, making it impossible to safely predict its development at this time.”

The key issue discussed during the EU foreign ministers’ informal meeting was the assessment of recent talks between EU officials, U.S. representatives, and Ukrainian officials.

Greece was invited to the Paris Conference on Syria following Greece's Foreign Minister's visits last week to seven different regions, including Damascus itself.

The MoU on CO2 storage is to be signed on Monday, February 17, during the EGYPES 2025 international petroleum exhibition in Cairo.

At the current geopolitical juncture, US-Turkey relations are an inordinately higher priority than those with Greece, primarily because of the need for cooperation in Syria, in which Ankara has sweeping influence and sway over the current “interim government”

Our new podcast features conversations with people in the know and on the ground about what’s happening in Greece and why it’s important—week by week.

Regarding the Cyprus issue and the upcoming Five-Party Conference, Greek Foreign Ministry sources emphasize that Greece rules out any discussion on a two-state solution or sovereign equality.

A self-styled anarchist-activist group called “Rouvikonas” carried out a motorcycle protest in front of the residence of the newly-elected President of Greece, Konstantinos Tasoulas in the upscale district of Kifisia on Wednesday night. The group posted a long article explaining its action online effectively calling the presidential office ineffectual as the “president could not even […]

On July 18, 2019, Tasoulas was elected President of the Hellenic Parliament, securing a historic 283 votes, the highest ever recorded for such an election.

Greece’s Ministry of Migration and Asylum requested and accepted the resignation of Ioannis Sfyrakis, Deputy Commissioner of the Asylum Service. 

During the spring 2025 academic term, Tsipras will participate in lectures, discussions, and workshops across Harvard’s campuses.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis promptly congratulated the New Democracy-nominated president-elect.

Konstantinos Tasoulas was elected President of the Greek Republic with 160 votes.

"Claims of a gradual weakening of the sequence—pushed by political figures and hotel industry interests—are not valid," says Tselentis on Facebook.

"I cannot accept the arbitrary imposition by the political leadership of additional members participating in the committee's meetings without an official Government Gazette," Tselentis stated.

In contrast to outgoing President Sakellaropoulou, elected with 261 votes in 2020, Tasoulas is set to win with just 160, mostly along party lines.

Speaking at the 6th Delphi Forum in Washington D.C, Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias underlined a key part of Athens’ strategic approach was to continue bolstering the already strong Greece-U.S. defense ties established during Trump’s first term which continued under Biden. Dendias reflected on the overly optimistic expectations that prevailed in the Western world at […]

The government also braces itself for renewed public scrutiny due to the nationwide rally taking place on February 28 to commemorate two years since the tragic Tempi train accident.

Two days ago, on February 9, he was in Damascus, Syria, where he met with Syria’s transitional leader Ahmad Al-Sarra and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Asaad Αl Shaibani.