Politics

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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“The Treaty of Lausanne is clear and not open to misinterpretation. It refers to a Muslim minority,” diplomatic sources said in Athens responding to the provocative statements by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who raised the issue of a “Turkish minority,” on Thursday. Addressing the Turkish Parliament’s budget committee, Fidan …

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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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  “Greece has from the start adopted a position in favor of full support for Ukraine in the war started by Russia, contrary to all concepts of international law,” Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis upon his arrival at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. Gerapetritis clear statements come …

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Almost two years after the Tempi train tragedy, the prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation to determine why footage from CCTV cameras at Thessaloniki Railway Station where the freight train was loaded was not included in the inquiry of the train crash in Tempi on …

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Thousands of people flocked to the Polytechnic campus in downtown Athens on Sunday to pay their tribute to the Students’ Uprising against the colonel’s junta on 17. November 1973. the 51th anniversary s being celebrated with events and the traditional long march to the US embassy. The gates of the …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expelled former Prime Minister and lawmaker Antonis Samaras from the ruling New Democracy party over his persistent criticism of government policies.It is the second time in 31 years, Samaras is being expelled from ND. Reason for the expulsion on Saturday was an interview by the former …

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