There are signs of optimism in the Western Balkans, but the countries in the region are not closer to becoming part of the European Union, despite the bloc’s investments, said Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis on Tuesday.
The ethnic-Greek mayor-elect of the Albanian town of Himare Fredi Beleri should receive a jail sentence of two and a half years, Albanian prosecutors said at his trial on Tuesday.
The majority of Greek citizens positively assess the United States’ stance toward Greece, believing that the US would conduct a “diplomatic and restrained” intervention in the event of a Greek-Turkish crisis. Notably, Greek citizens favor President Joe Biden over likely Republican candidate Donald Trump in the run-up to the US elections this November. Lastly, the…
Authorities at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens have ordered a sworn administrative enquiry into an incident on Monday where some college administrators and students prevented online examinations from taking place by pulling the plug on a computer server.
The firm spearheading one of the Republic of Cyprus’ most ambitious energy ventures, the LNG terminal at Vassiliko, finds itself grappling with challenges that pose a threat to its completion.
Counterterrorism police in Turkey have arrested an Islamic State group suspect who was working at a nuclear power plant being built in the country’s south, local media reported Tuesday. The Russian national had been working at the Akkuyu nuclear facility under false identity papers, the Ihlas News Agency and other media reported. The $20 billion…
Whatever the result of the US elections in November this year, relations between Washington and Athens will remain strong, US Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt said during a group discussion at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The discussion focused on the future of the…
The Cyprus problem and the prospect of resuming reunification talks was one of the issues that dominated Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis’ meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on Monday.
US Congressman John Sarbanes was presented with the annual “Leader” award in Washington, D.C. on Monday, given each year to an outstanding member of the Greek-American diaspora. The presentation was made during a gala dinner hosted by “Hellas and Diaspora – The Future Initiative,” on the sidelines of the 5th Forum for Southeast Europe and…
The chairman and CEO of Greece’s power utility company PPC’s presented the company’s plans to penetrate the region of the Western Balkans and the Southeast Mediterranean to the US Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources Geoffrey Pyatt at a meeting in Washington on Monday. “I informed him of our energy transition plans, new clean and flexible…