Ukraine

The situation in Ukraine and other international matters, such as the South Stream and Turkish Stream pipeline projects, dominated a telephone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras earlier on Thursday, the Kremlin announced. Putin invited...

European Union Foreign Ministers have decided in a Brussels Council today to extend targeted sanctions against Russia by six months, until September, although they showed limited appetite for broader and stricter measures imposed on Moscow. The sanctions are imposed due to...

The first political moves and acts of the new Greek coalition government have shocked German officials, according to a Reuters report. On his first day as prime minister on Monday, Alexis Tsipras placed a wreath at the war memorial in...

A few hours before arriving to Athens, President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz suggested to Greece not to deviate from the common European Union stance towards Russia regarding the crisis in Ukraine. "I noticed with dismay that Greece today...

Ukrainian travel agency “News Travel,” which used to provide services to 120,000 Ukrainian tourists per year, organizing trips to 31 destinations, has shut down. Several popular Greek destinations such as Crete, Halkidiki, Corfu, Rhodes and Kos were included in the...

Bloomberg has asked a number of political analysts, economists, investors and military experts to submit their views on which country is in danger of an upheaval in 2015. The “Pessimist's guide of 2015” includes various countries that faced difficulties in the previous...

In Brussels on the occasion of the European Union summit will be today and tomorrow the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, in the aftermath of the first, unsuccessful, ballot for the election of the new President of the Hellenic...

Former commander of Nato in Europe, James Stavridis has called for the alliance to help Ukraine fight Moscow-backed separatists by providing arms and military advisers to the country. “I think we should provide significant military assistance to the Ukrainian military," said...

Greece and other eastern European countries may be looking for alternatives after Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to scrap a pipeline bypassing Ukraine, according to Bloomberg. The alternative is a new Azeri pipeline. The eastern European region has suffered...

Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kyriakos Gerontopoulos responded immediately to the Greek community of Mariupol's request for financial support of the local Medical Center “Hippocrates.” More than 100,000 Greek Diaspora members are currently living in war-hit Ukraine and medical care availability...