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Proposal for Inquiry on Ex-Minister Papangelopoulos Submitted to Parliament
Speaker of the House Constantinos Tasoulas announced on Thursday morning that thirty MPs from the governing New Democracy (ND) Party had submitted a proposal to initiate procedures for a special Parliamentary investigative committee against the former Deputy Minister of...
Diplomacy
Greek PM Mitsotakis and Wife Mareva Attend Dinner Hosted by President Trump and First Lady Melania
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis attended a dinner given by US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday evening in honor of UN General Assembly delegates.
Mitsotakis and Trump are both in...
Greek News
PM Mitsotakis Tells Astoria, New York Audience ”I Am One of You” (video)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave an emotionally powerful speech to hundreds of Greeks and Americans of Greek descent in Astoria, New York on Wednesday evening.
"I feel like I'm one of you, and I want you to feel that...
Diplomacy
Greek PM Mitsotakis Meets Turkish President Erdogan in New York
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York on Wednesday, his first with the Turkish president since he became prime minister in July.
The meeting, lasting 45 minutes, was held concurrent with a...
Greece
Travel Company Offers Nine-Day Free Luxury Tour of Greece — For Snapping Photos
A new luxury travel company is offering one lucky person the chance to spend nine days island-hopping in Greece, staying in high-end hotels while taking photos for Instagram on a free smartphone — and they'll get paid $620 to...
Greece
Greece's Milos Ranked Among Ten Most Beautiful Islands in the World
According to a new list published by CNN Travel on Tuesday, the Greek island of Milos is among the ten most beautiful islands in the entire world.
The list, which is exclusively dedicated to islands, interestingly does not rank them...
Cyprus
Number of Britons Seeking Cyprus Residence Permits Soars Ahead of Brexit
According to the Civil Registry and Migration Department of the Republic of Cyprus, more than 15,000 additional British citizens have applied to obtain permanent residence permits since the 2016 Brexit referendum in the UK.
So far, 32,281 British nationals have...
Archaeology
Greek Ministry of Culture in Legal Dispute over Return of 8th Century BC Antiquity
Greek Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni met on Monday with a New York City assistant prosecutor over the repatriation of an 8th century BC bronze statuette which was illegally exported from Greek territory.
The Greek minister met with...
Greece
British Woman Dead After Husband Accidentally Runs Over Her on Skiathos Island
A family tragedy took place on the Greek island of Skiathos, in the Northern Sporades, in the early hours of Wednesday.
A British couple who own a house on Skiathos and spend most of their time in Greece, returned home at...
Greek News
Athens Mayor Bakoyannis Talks Education, Technology and Economy at Concordia Summit
Costas Bakoyannis, the newly-elected mayor of Athens, spoke about the resilience of economies in the areas of technology, education, and access during Tuesday's session of the Concordia Summit in New York.
Bakoyannis served on the panel along with four other...
Greek News
UK PM Boris Johnson Compares Brexit to Tortures of Greek Hero Prometheus
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared Brexit to the eternal torture of the Greek hero Prometheus during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night in New York.
Johnson gave a speech which attracted the attention...
Diplomacy
Meeting Between Greek PM Mitsotakis and President Trump Cancelled
The scheduled Tuesday evening meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and US President Donald Trump was cancelled after US Democrats opened a formal impeachment inquiry into the president over allegations he sought help from a foreign power to damage...
Diplomacy
Greek PM Vows to Respect Prespa Deal in Meeting With North Macedonian Counterpart
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Tuesday in New York that although he did not agree with the Prespa Agreement, Greece is obliged to honor it.
Meeting his counterpart for the first time,...
Greek News
WH Counselor Kellyanne Conway: "President Trump Loves Greece"
Kellyanne Conway, the senior White House Counselor, spoke about President Trump's love for Greece, ahead of a scheduled meeting between Greek PM Mitsotakis and the US leader on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York,...
Greece
More than 800 Migrants Cross into Greece in Less than 48 Hours
A total of 360 refugees and illegal migrants were registered just from midnight Tuesday to 4 PM the same day at the Moria Reception and Identification Center on the Greek island of Lesvos, authorities reported on Tuesday.
Some 62 of...