#Greece

The Great Sea Interconnector project will offer triple benefits to Cyprus, with better energy security, a ‘green mix’ of power generation and cheaper energy for all consumers, the Greek Independent ...

The management of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie) will be in Cyprus on Tuesday to hold talks with representatives of the energy ministers of Cyprus and Israel. They ...

Cyprus will be celebrating Greek Independence Day on Monday, with a host of parades, events, and church services. At 10am, a church service will be held at the Panayia Faneromeni ...

President Nikos Christodoulides discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, among other things the intention to schedule the next Cyprus-Egypt Intergovernmental Summit, as well as the next trilateral summit ...

A park in Thessaloniki had been named after the Greek General Georgios Katsanis, who fought alongside Greek Cypriots when Turkey invaded the island in 1974. Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides attended the ...

This winter was the hottest on record for Greece, according to data analysed by Greek scientists, threatening the viability of crops and raising fears of another summer of devastating wildfires. ...

Two Greek soldiers (Eldyk) serving in Cyprus were injured during a training exercise in Stavrovouni, the Greek Defence Ministry said on Wednesday calling for authorities to investigate the incident. The ...

Greek Shipping Minister Christos Stylianides caused controversy on Tuesday evening when he said, “half of Cyprus is Turkish”. Stylianides, who is originally Cypriot, was speaking in Greece’s parliament regarding ...

Cyprus has been notably absent in congratulating Greece on passing the same-sex marriage law, failing to be one of 28 countries with embassies in Athens to congratulate them. Greece passed the ...

Greece will exhaust every possibility, so that there can be positive developments in the Cyprus issue, Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said on Monday, following a meeting he had with ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday denied reports that the Greek government had intervened to force President Nikos Christodoulides to remove former Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas from his post. Speaking ...

Greece will publish a bill shortly that will legalise same-sex marriage in a bid to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. Greece has ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed a new police minister on Wednesday as part of a mini cabinet reshuffle aimed at boosting his conservative government ahead of expected reforms this ...

Deaths in ongoing wars have resulted from the mistakes of a handful of politicians. When will they ever learn? Alper Riza’s review of 2023 Reviews of the year are obviously ...

Almost two dozen suspects had charges brought against them by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) for failing to implement EU regulations and agreements on the Greek railway, where ...

Almost two dozen Greek Cypriot students from the nationalist far-right student organisation Drasis-Kes were arrested in Athens on Thursday, after protesting outside the Turkish embassy, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was undiplomatic and rude to cancel a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Monday over a few anodyne remarks he made to ...

Talks over a possible return of the British Museum’s Parthenon Sculptures to Athens are not advancing quickly enough, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday as he prepared ...

An EU-wide mechanism to combat illegal migration was one of the main issues on the agenda on Tuesday during a meeting in Athens between Cyprus Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and ...

Greece’s state-controlled bank bailout fund HFSF said on Monday it sold its 9 per cent stake in Alpha Bank (ACBr.AT) to UniCredit for 293.5 million euros ($314 million) after an improved ...

Cooperation between Cyprus and Greece is becoming even closer, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Letymbiotis had held a meeting with his Greek counterpart Pavlos Marinakis on the sidelines ...

Asylum-seekers arriving in Greece face physical violence including being beaten and sent back to sea, Doctors without Borders said on Thursday, calling on Greece to increase migrant search and rescue ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli is traveling to Athens on Monday to participate in the 8th tripartite ministerial meeting of Greece, Cyprus and Malta on shipping issues to be ...

EuroAsia Interconnector Ltd – the Cypriot company behind the mooted subsea power cable linking Greece, Israel and Cyprus – will quit the project entirely, it emerged on Monday. Industry sources moreover told ...