"The things I saw in Skala Sykamnias are not a Greek problem. They are my personal problem as a European citizen, as a human being, as a politician of our common homeland of Europe," European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis said in statements on Thursday, while visiting the island of Lesvos in the northeast Aegean

President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos underlined the necessity of being united and giving the battle together on major issues and on national targets that do not depend on the changes of the government, at his meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday at the presidential mansion

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday tabled to Parliament the final draft of the 2016 state budget designed to combine fiscal responsibility with social justice and the redistribution of burdens.

The island of Lefkada moved 36 cm to the south after the strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale that stroke the Ionian island on Tuesday according to Athens Geodynamics Institute data collected by the GPS station at Ponti on Lefkada. It is a big movement that surprised us, said the Institute's chief Athanassios Ganas.