November 26, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece is about “reunification” not “ownership.” In an interview on the British state broadcaster BBC on Sunday, the Greek PM added that Greece will continue to pursue the return of the Parthenon marbles, although progress in negotiations is slow. “If …
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July 14, 2023
Greece, Politics
The meting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO Summit sidelines in Vilnius “was an opportunity for a restart in Greek-Turkish relations following four difficult years,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Skai TV on Thursday evening. “It confirmed my view that Turkiye appears to …
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March 8, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis claimed in an interview with UK’s BBC that the “new metro in Thessaloniki was “up and running.” In an interview with BBC Hardtalk, Mitarakis was invited to speak about the deadly train collision last week, however, he obviously chose to speak about the achievements of …
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November 7, 2022
Uncategorized
A newspaper report claiming more than 30 people, including ministers and business-people, were under state surveillance via phone malware has been dismissed as lacking any evidence by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “There is absolutely no evidence and there is no connection with me,” Mitsotakis said of the article, which appeared …
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July 4, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“I can not make vaccination mandatory. But everyone is now assuming the consequences. The country will not close again to protect a few unvaccinated people and we will not let the vast majority of the Greek population that is vaccinated to pay the cost,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in …
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May 13, 2021
Greece
Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis was grilled at BBC and HardTalk when it came to vacations and vaccinations in Greece, the course of the pandemic and UK’s decision to not include the country in the “green list for safe travel.” In the following indicative excerpt, journalist Stephen Sackur criticized the Greek …
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April 23, 2021
Greece, Politics
Turkey doesn’t accept international rules when it comes to exploratory drilling for gas in the eastern Mediterranean, Greece’s foreign minister Niko Dendias has told Euronews. “We would like to move our relations forward,” Nikos Dendias told Euronews. “But we have a problem: in order to solve an exercise [problem], we …
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February 4, 2021
FEATURED, Greece
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has forecast a strong rebound in tourism this summer. Speedy vaccination drives in key markets including Britain and Israel will pave the way for tourists to return despite the current industry gloom, he told news-agency Reuters on Thursday.. “I am a realist but I am …
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July 14, 2019
Greece
“I have never been anti-Semitic,” Rural Development and Food Minister, Makis Voridis, said on Saturday, following reactions to his ministerial appointment by Jewish organizations in Greece and broad. The General Secretary of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), Victor Eliezer, has said that Voridis has “a dark …
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June 5, 2019
Greece
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced that the government will revoke the austerity measure of broadening the tax-free basis with a draft law to come to Parliament before the early elections on July 7, 2019. In a live interview to state ERT TV on last night, Tsipras said that the draft …
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April 16, 2019
Greece
Repaying earlier expensive International Monetary Fund loans is a significant step for Greece which will create favorable conditions for its economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday, promising more relief measures. “We are gaining points of (economic) freedom,” Tsipras said during an interview with Greece’s private ANT1 TV. During the …
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January 23, 2019
Greece, Politics
“If the Prespes Agreement does not come into effect the consequences will be profound and dangerous,” UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the talks between Greece and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Matthew Nimetz said in an exclusive interview with Athens news agency. In response to a question by ANA, …
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November 9, 2018
Greece
The announcement that 10,000 new civil servants will be hired after 10,000 priest will be removed from the state payroll has created a lot of confusion. How will Tsipras will finance the wages for so many civil servants if the state will keep subsidizing the priests wages? In an interview …
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September 22, 2018
Greece, Politics
“There is no other Macedonia but ours,” Prime Minister of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Zoran Zaev said in an interview to FYROM’s state agency MIA on Friday afternoon. “The northern part of Greece is Greece, the western part of Bulgaria is Bulgaria. This is our Macedonia and there will …
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September 19, 2018
Tourism
With wife, three children, mom and father-in-law, Matthew McConaughey spent an unforgettable vacation in Greece in July. The Hollywood star was so excited about his Greek experience that he praised the country and the great hospitality foreigners enjoy in Greece during an appearance to The Tonight Show of Jimmy Fallon …
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September 17, 2018
Arts, Culture
“Dinner For Few” is a ten minute CG-animated film by EMMY award winning animation artist Nassos Vakalis. The short film depicts a sociopolitical allegory of our society in general and the Greek economic crisis as well as the economic crisis in the countries of the European South in particular. During …
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September 12, 2018
Greece, Politics
A nationalist and quasi-fascist force is rising up in Europe, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned. In an exclusive interview with Euronews’ new Raw Politics programme, he said the continent was heading for a return to 1930s fascism. “We are going to unleash demonic political forces that will …
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July 6, 2018
Greece, Politics
With the Brexit negotiations ongoing, UK’s expats have thousands of questions concerning their future in the countries they have chosen to live. Whether it is visas, studies, pensions, health care or travel and passports, British expats in Greece have hardly a chance to get first hand information. Bobby Gee from …
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July 5, 2018
Economy
Optimistic about the exit from the bailout program in August and the fiscal performance of the country, Greek Finance Minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, did not rule out that the long-term fiscal targets could be reviewed or that a further debt relief could be achieved with the country’s creditors. Confident that Greece …
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June 11, 2018
Editor
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the harsh austerity policies implemented in the debt-ridden countries of the euro zone claiming she did “the right thing.” She even presented herself as a “victim”, complaining about being target of insults in Greece and Portugal. In a self-righteous and self-pity performance, she insulted the …
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