The Greek minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, concluded his visit in Ankara, on Thursday, after meeting with his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two sides agreed to meet again in Geneva at the end of April “to work together to improve Turkey-Greece relations" as the Turkish Foreign [...]
The 7th week of the open online program for Greek and Cypriot tech startup founders, Greek Startup Universe, is on! The program, which is a nonprofit initiative of Startup Greece and Founderhood, runs under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its main purpose is to [...]
“Spatial planning: Time to deliver”: The March/April 2021 issue of Greek Business File (GBF) is dedicated to a key instrument of a country’s development and investment. Greece is a rare example of a European country that lacks a comprehensive and effective spatial planning system. GBF looks into the 2020 "Modernization of urban and spatial planning legislation". [...]
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, a French medical doctor of Greek origin and member of the European Parlianment, was appointed Co-Chair of the COVAX Shareholders Council. https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1382428478193102848 The COVAX mechanism, a global collaboration to which the EU is a major contributor, will deliver 32 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 59 countries by the first quarter of [...]
Greece is expected to finalise a deal with Saudi Arabia for the deployment of a Greek Patriot anti-aircraft system next week, Reuters news agency reported stating two government officials in Athens. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos are due to travel to Riyadh next week to sign the agreement, one of the [...]
Nikos Dendias is packing his bags for Ankara by Antonis D. Papagiannidis The visit of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias to Ankara and his planned meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu was announced when the 62nd round of Greek-Turkish exploratory talks was held in Athens (March 16). The announcement of the Dendias-Cavusoglu meeting, with [...]
Is a new set-up possible in Central and Eastern Mediterranean? by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Three successive stops will mark the efforts of Greece to negotiate the waters of Central and East Mediterranean throughout this April, pregnant with change. The first is quite near: Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias are to visit [...]
In 2021 Greece celebrates the 200 years since the outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Celebrations culminated in the military parade in Athens on 25 March. Though deprived of its usual crowd due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the parade was attended by a number of distinguished guests. Among them Britain's Prince Charles and his [...]
Young entrepreneurs who are building the New Greece are bonding with the brightest lights of the Greek Diaspora through The Hellenic Initiative’s new Virtual Entrepreneurial Mentorship Project “Connect the Dots.” The program is supported by the U.S. Embassy in Athens, as part of its campaign “USA-Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship” commemorating Greece’s Bicentennial. It [...]
Of EU summiteering and delicate equilibria by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Europe, the EU, European integration is supposed to thrive in adversity – to forge ahead in times of crisis. When the debt crisis struck, instruments such as the ESM were formed. Now, with the Covid-19 pandemic underway, Next Generation EU was agreed upon based on [...]
