Greece supports the creation of a Palestinian state based on the borders of 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday in statements after meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abb…

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The fall 2015 issue of The Ambassadors Review runs an article titled "Greece and the European Project: Canary in the Coal Mine?" by Daniel V. Speckhard, United States Ambassador to Greece from 2007 to 2010. The main point made by Speckhard is that Gr…

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The prime ministers of Greece and Israel, on Wednesday (26.11) in Jerusalem, expressed satisfaction with the high-level "strategic cooperation" between the two countries and agreed to seek tangible ways to strengthen ties between the two countries an…

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According to the results of a survey published by NGO Prolepsis Institute, the prolonged socio-economic crisis in Greece is increasing the problem of food insecurity and enhances unhealthy eating habits in children, while affecting severely their abi…

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Evangelos Meimarakis resigned yesterday (24.11) as interim leader of the main opposition New Democracy (ND) party, assuming responsibility for Sunday's embarrassing technical failure to hold a leadership election and citing the ne…

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Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi, Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), and Visiting Fellow at the ECFR Berlin Office since November 2015, argued in a recent commentary on the refugee crisis titled &l…

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Greece has met all the conditions of its first set of milestones required to disburse funds up to 12 billion euros, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and Eurogroup concluded on Monday (23.12).
 
The ESM authorized the release of a…

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In an interview with the Sunday edition of ‘Ethnos’ (22.11), Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called Greece’s political forces for a national dialogue on the major open national issues as well as on the social cohesion of t…

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The government's multi bill on ‘prior actions’ passed through Parliament last night (20.11) with 153 votes in favour and 137 votes against in the 300-seat chamber, but the government majority shrank as two dissenting lawmakers…

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On the initiative of the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, Nikos Voutsis, the Parliamentary Committee seeking reparations from Germany for the Nazi occupation of Greece has been re-established this week. The Committee was set up twice during previo…

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