The Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, was the keynote speaker last night at the annual Conference of the Association of German Tour Operators (DRV), organized in Costa Navarino, Messinia.
President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou observed the Armed Forces parade in Thessaloniki on Thursday, commemorating October 28, 1940 (Ochi Day).
The state will honor the memory of the late veteran politician Fofi Gennimata by giving her name to a cancer prevention program, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
October 28, 1940. A Day of Remembrance and National Pride. The Anniversary of "NO" commemorates Greece's denial of the Italian demands contained in the ultimatum served to Ioannis Metaxas, resulting in the country's "entry" into World War II and the start of the Greek-Italian war.
Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata, 57, was laid to rest at the First Cemetery of Athens on Wednesday following a political career that began with her assisting her father as minister of PASOK to acquiring the profile of a politician who could keep her party together and was not tainted by any scandal.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi conducted a review of bilateral relations between Greece and China and international affairs during their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on Wednesday.
Joint Statement – At the Conclusion of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic’s visit to the Kingdom
The Hellenic Initiative (THI), the leading group uniting the Greek diaspora and philhellenes internationally, is once again hosting its Annual Gala in person after last year’s virtual-only event. Funds raised will provide continued pandemic crisis relief and help foster Greek economic recovery opportunities after months of fiscal challenges.
During the Apostolic Visit of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the US, Andrew Manatos was installed as a member of the first class of “Senators for Orthodoxy and Hellenism.” This ceremony took place on October 24 at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Washington, DC and was presided over by His Eminence Elder-Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and His Eminence Archbishop of America Elpidophoros.
Dealing with the climate crisis, promoting religious freedom around the world, and effective and socially equitable management of the pandemic were some of the topics on the agenda of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's meetings with US President Joe Biden and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The meetings took place in a very good atmosphere, while as church circles underlined, they were not ceremonial contacts, as the two meetings took place with enlarged delegations and with the participation of senior officials of the White House and the State Department.
From the side of the patriarchal delegation, it was stressed that the current situation with the Theological School of Halki can not continue. As it was underlined, Turkey is trying to put the issue on the basis of reciprocity with Greece and is asking for unreasonable trade-offs, which of course cannot be accepted by Athens. In this light, the patriarchal mission requested that the issue of the Halki Theological School be removed from the agenda of Greek-Turkish relations. For this reason, they called on the United States to upgrade the issue politically and take an additional step that goes beyond the level of rhetoric. As has been characteristically said, Washington must change its tactics, as its policy has not yielded any results for Halki. As for the situation in Turkey, Joe Biden expressed the feeling that President Erdogan is particularly cramped, as his country's economy is in dire straits, and appeared curious about how he would react from now on.
Professor of seismology Gerasimos Papadopoulos spoke about a period of seismic exacerbation that Greece is going through. The distinguished seismologist presented in the show "Social Net" with Fotis Karydas the model of a study that he had published 34 years ago in a geophysical magazine, which has been verified over the years.
The president of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, died at noon on Monday, at the Evangelismos hospital, where she had been hospitalized since October 12 after the recurrence of her basic disease.
Thanks to concerted diplomatic actions of Greece, the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin (ICPRCP) issued for the first time a Decision, not only a recommendation, regarding the issue of returning the sculptures of Parthenon to Greece, as we used to do the years before. This decision (22.COM 17), which was adopted unanimously last September at the Committee’s 22nd session, acknowledges the just request of our country and for the first time the United Kingdom is invited to enter into a dialogue with Greece.
Greece was announced as the top destination for Europe in 2021 (Europe’s Leading Destination 2021) at the international travel institution World Travel Awards.