Greece

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s has nominated Kimberly Guilfoyle as the next U.S. Ambassador to Greece. A decision that stunned Greek-American supporters of Trump and has been met with mixed feelings by Republicans. I am so proud of Kimberly. She loves America and she always has wanted to serve the country …

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One more MP of SYRIZA left the party bringing its seats in the Parliament down to 26. MP Rania Thraskia, a former TV persona, announced on Tuesday she is leaving the party to become an independent lawmaker. “I will continue my parliamentary work unwavering, as I have done until today …

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Right after the historic developments in Syria over the weekend and the fall of the Assad regime, Greece has decided to freeze decisions on asylum requests submitted by Syrian refugees. According to the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, there are currently approximately 9,000 Syrian applications pending. In an exclusive report …

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The chief economic advisor to the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Patelis, announced his resignation in a post on social media on Monday. Patelis has occupied this position for the last five years. He said in his post that he had informed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of his intention to step …

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The official visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Lebanon has been postponed for a few days. According to sources from the Air Force General Staff, the government aircraft presented a technical fault and it is not possible for the Prime Minister  to visit Lebanon on Friday. The visit …

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In a wide-ranging interview, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsosakis said the current fleet of 24 Rafale fighter jets is ‘sufficient,’ reversing earlier plans to acquire up to 12 more newly built Rafales upgraded to the latest F4 standard, the avionist.com reported on Thursday. Greece will not buy additional Dassault Rafale …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be visiting Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday afternoon, December 6. The visit sends “a strong message in favor of stability and peace in the region and support for Lebanon in implementing the ceasefire reached on November 26,” the government spokesman stressed announcing the visit …

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With kettledrums and trumpets, the Metro of Thessaloniki began running on the tracks, 40 years after the original idea was captured, decades of delays and cost overruns. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pressed the button for the start during a festive inauguration at “Venizelos” station early Saturday afternoon, on the “historical …

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MP Evangelos Apostolakis announced on Thursday evening that he is leaving SYRIZA parliamentary group and will remain independent. Apostolakis, who had recently aligned himself with Stefanos Kasselakis, adopted criticisms against SYRIZA in his statement. He was elected on a list prepared by the party and not on voters’ cross and …

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The government unveiled on Thursday a new plan to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras nationwide to improve road safety and enforce traffic laws more effectively. The initiative seeks to reduce the number of accidents, particularly in urban areas where traffic fatalities have risen despite improvements in highway safety. The traffic, …

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MP Yiannis Sarakiotis, elected with SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance in Fthiotida, sent a letter to the Parliament speaker on Thursday announcing that he leaves the party’s parliamentary group and goes independent. SYRIZA reportedly urged him to return his seat to the party. Sarakiotis did not vote for the new SYRIZA leader on …

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“With Alexis Tsipras, Greece was now saved,” German chancellor at the peak of the Greek economic crisis, Angela Merkel, notes in her memoirs book, entitled “Freedom.” Talking about the “Greek crisis” in 35 pages, Angela Merkel recalls the events 2010-2018, the negotiations, the referendum and the exit from bankruptcy as …

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A series of incidents regarding patients in Greece’s public hospitals as well as the promotion of a doctor convinced for manslaughter of three patients have raised serious concerns about the safety of hospitals in the country. Reports of a patient’s death and a year-long delay in communicating a cancer diagnosis …

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“There is no way we accept fait a compli,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Turkey responding to provocative statements of Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler regarding exploration in the Aegean Sea. “We believe that the mild climate that permeates Greek-Turkish relations can favor the restart of talks on the Cyprus …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed the unwavering support for Ukraine and the need for even greater support from NATO in a meeting the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, in Athens on Tuesday. In joint statements both Mitsotakis and Rutte refrained from commenting on the consequences …

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MP Sokratis Famellos has been elected the new leader of  SYRIZA party on Sunday. The election means a new page for the left-wing party that has suffered the loss of 18 lawmakers since the parliamentary elections in summer 2023 and lost its status of “Greece’s main opposition party” earlier this …

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Deposed SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis announced on Saturday his new party. Its’ name is “Movement for Democracy” (Kinima Dimokratias/Κίνημα Δημοκρατίας), a name it was voted in a poll by his supporters. The party is neither left or right, and it moves somewhere between Left and Center, Kasselakis said without specifying …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that the government will repair damages in the residential building caused by the bomb inside an apartment in Ambelokipoi district of Athens on November 1. In a meeting with owners and tenants of the apartment building, the PM said that there is state …

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A major and unusual change in the Greek parliamentary landscape. Left-wing SYRIZA has lost its “main opposition party” status as the second largest party after two MPs resigned on Thursday morning and the party has 29 seats in Parliament. Socialist PASOK is now Greece’s main opposition with 31 seats. The …

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The Greek Embassy in Kyiv will be closed today, Wednesday, November 20, for fear of a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian capital. The closure follows President Joe Biden’s decision to permit the use of ATACMS long-range missiles inside Russia and the subsequent launch of six ballistic missiles at a …

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