Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday he was taking over the Foreign Ministry following the resignation of Nikos Kotzias in order to ensure the successful completion of the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
Former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, who resigned on Wednesday, is a unique personality. He had tense relations, not just with Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and officials from the opposition, but also with people inside the government – even inside the prime minister’s office.
Albania's Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati on Wednesday thanked former counterpart Nikos Kotzias for his efforts to resolve long-standing bilateral issues, following the Greek minister's tumultuous resignation from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' cabinet.
MSF is “intensely worried by the fact that incidents of sexual abuse and rape that took place in Moria on Lesvos are disregarded and labeled untrue by the administration itself,” the NGO said.
Greece’s agricultural and food sector could bring an additional 12.2 billion euros per year into the economy and create 200,000 new jobs if it was brought up to modern European Union standards, according to a study by the Financial Analysis Department of the National Bank of Greece that was published this week.
The Greek government is heading to the future without direction or program, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report.
Former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, who resigned on Wednesday, is a unique personality. He had tense relations, not just with Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and officials from the opposition, but also with people inside the government – even inside the prime minister’s office.
A two-day conference at the Acropolis Museum starting Thursday aims to highlight the contribution of foreign archaeological schools in Athens to the study and promotion of Greek and European culture.
Overharvesting to meet skyrocketing demand in Turkey and elsewhere is placing the endemic wild orchid population in Pindos, northwestern Greece, at risk, according to a team of scientists studying the flowers.
John Ioannidis, C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, professor of medicine, health research and policy and statistics, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University was elected as a regular member of the US' National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Within less than a week Olympiakos produced a second emphatic performance on the road to beat Baskonia in Spain on Wednesday for the Euroleague, after Panathinaikos surprisingly went down at debutant Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
Olympiakos midfielder Kostas Fortounis has been handed a one-match ban in the Greek league as punishment for an obscene goal celebration during a game this month.
The British Council presents “Beyond the Event,” an exhibition organized in cooperation with the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography as part of this year’s PhotoBiennale festival and curated by established British-Cypriot photographer George Georgiou at the Eirmos Gallery.
