The new United States Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis presented his credentials to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Tuesday morning. Following the ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion, Tsunis held a brief conversation with Sakellaropoulou and expressed how moved he was by his return to the land of his parents.
Greek health authorities announced 6,416 new reported cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, more than double the 2,819 reported on Monday. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced 27 virus-related deaths and 196 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units.
Athens wants an American military presence in Greece – and in the north of the country in particular – because this serves the national interest, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Protesters opposed to the dismantling of an unlicensed “social space” and the construction of a library in its place clashed with police on the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
There is nothing transitory about the challenges we’re facing – if anything, they’re mounting – and the fixated advocates of market self-regulation led their governments to take delayed and unproductive decisions in response. Greece is no exception.
Turkey is “a million times right” when it comes to its claims in the Aegean, the country’s defense minister, Hulusi Akar, said on Tuesday, accusing Greece of “provocative actions and rhetoric.”
The Greek Embassy in Kyiv, whose staff was evacuated from the city for security reasons shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reopened on Tuesday, Greece’s Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement.
Greece’s annual consumer inflation jumped to its highest level in 28 years in April at 10.2% on the back of surging costs for energy, housing, transportation and foods, official data showed on Tuesday.
Greece’s economy is forecast to expand by 2.9% this year with growth expected to pick up to 3.5% in 2023, helped by increased disbursement of funds from the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, the EBRD projected on Tuesday.
Divers are seen conducting research at the wreck of the Mentor, one of the vessels used by Lord Elgin to transport antiquities that he had removed, among other things, from the monuments of the Acropolis.