NATO
Greece
Greek Prime Minister: NATO Plays an Important Role in Stablity and Security
The dramatic developments in Ukraine demonstrate the great importance of an organization which offers stability and security such as NATO, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday after his meeting with the secretary general of the organization Anders Fogh...
Greece
Informal EU Defense Meeting in Athens
The Informal EU Defense Meeting will be held at the Zappeion Megaron in Athens, on February 20 and 21, 2014. The meeting will be chaired by the Greek Minister of National Defense Dimitris Avramopoulos, as Greece currently holds the rotating...
Cyprus
Now Anastasiades Sleeps With The Enemy
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will succeed in his burning desire to reunify the island, whose northern third is still occupied by a standing Turkish army and unlawful invaders, right about the time Greece gets back Istanbul, which it still...
Crime
Defense Scandal Prompts More Oversight
The Greek government said it will overhaul contract awarding procedures and place defence contracts under increased parliamentary oversight following a corruption scandal in which at least 10 high-ranking military officers have been implicated for taking bribes to approve contracts...
Greece
Venizelos Kills Stournaras With Kindness
Greek Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, who served as the country's finance chief in a previous PASOK Socialist administration, took some verbal shots at current Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras' method of handling the country's ongoing economic crisis, widening the...
Economy
Greek Defense Spending Set For Hit
Greece’s battered defense budget will be cut another 100 million euros in a trade-off the country’s coalition government made with international lenders to reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on restaurants and tavernas and boost a record-breaking tourist season.
The...
Greece
Veteran Diplomat Stathatos Passed Away
Stephanos Stathatos passed away on June 18 at the age of 91. The death of the honorary ambassador is a significant loss for the Diplomatic Service of Greece.
Stephanos Stathatos, was a distinguished career diplomat, with special training and...
Greece
Santorini Monks Fight NATO Radar
The monks of the Prophet Elias Monastery are struggling against the installation of NATO radar installations on the fabled island of Santorini.
The monks, who adjacent to the devices placed in the park right next to the monastery, which has...
Europe
Cyber Threat Top Concern for NATO
The departing top NATO military commander has listed cyber security as the number one challenge for the coming years.
Cyber attacks on corporations and governments are no longer unusual. Suspects and their computers are hauled away on a regular basis.
That's...
Greece
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...