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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that his country can "play a leading role in the global energy market" and "become a dynamic energy-exporting economy in the coming years." Gas production in the Ionian Sea will evidently be a major part of this scenario. In his weekly Facebook post on January 26, he called the interest shown by US energy giant Chevron in exploring the area southwest of the Peloponnese region "an important development." Five years ago, another American energy giant, ExxonMobil, also expressed a similar interest and was granted a license for exploratory drilling. Does Greece have major gas deposits? Preliminary estimates suggest that the gas deposits in the maritime area stretching from southwest of the Peloponnese to south of the island of Crete could ...

Krystalli Glyniadakis is an award-winning poet, translator, and journalist from Greece. We met in Athens at the Chytomo presentation of the Ukrainian book publishing and literary scene. Krystalli shared her thoughts on the latest trends in contemporary Greek poetry and readership, and commented on the space for Ukrainian topics within them.   Chytomo: The recent report from the Hellenic Foundation (2024) stated that last year in Greece, around 1000 poetry books were published. How do you think that was made possible? What is the landscape for publishing poetry books like in Greece?   Krystalli Glyniadakis: Well, there is obviously an overinflation of publishing, so there are way more titles that anyone can consume. Even the most fanatic readers and book critics cannot consume 1000 titles o...

Athens, Greece — Amidst strong reactions, Greece’s Parliament voted on Wednesday, September 3 in favor of a new migration bill, which introduces prison sentences of two to five years for those who remain in the country after their asylum applications have been rejected, among other provisions. The new law comes as part of a broader anti-immigrant policy recently adopted by the conservative New Democracy government. In July, increased refugee and migrant arrivals on the southern island of Crete prompted an emergency measure suspending asylum applications from people arriving to Crete from North Africa for three months. The measure remains in force. Greece recorded 6,724 arrivals of refugees and migrants in July 2025, 3,534 of which were on Crete, According to data from the Ministry of...

Stefanos Kasselakis (L) and his partner Tyler Mcbeth in Athens, June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU Following the legalization of same-sex civil marriage in Greece in February, the head of the left-wing SYRIZA party, Stefanos Kasselakis, exchanged vows on Friday with his American partner Tyler McBeth at a ceremony in Chania on the island of Crete. Kasselakis and McBeth are the first openly LGBTQ+ couple in Greek politics. They first married in October 2023 in New York but decided to also marry in Greece following the legalisation of civil marriage for same-sex couples earlier this year. The marriage took place at 5 pm local time at the Botanical Garden, amid fruit trees, herbs, spices and medicinal and ornamental plants gathered from all over the world. Over the previous four days...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his views regarding the “woke agenda” during a discussion with the President of the Jacques Delors Institute and former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. The conversation took place as part of an event organized by the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce in Athens, on Tuesday, January 21, with the central theme of the event being ‘T𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 – 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀.’Regarding his personal views on gender, Mitsotakis stated “Yes, I happen to believe that there are two genders, male and female. This is my personal opinion, and it is dictated by biology. Of course, every country has its own culture and particularities, but it is important to be clear.”Continuing, he commented on the “Donald T...

“The time has come to take back our homelands, to make Europe great again,” said the president of the Voice of Reason party, Afroditi Latinopoulou, on the stage of the conference of the far-right political group Patriots for Europe in Madrid, dressed in an all-white suit and a broad smile, applauded by France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Last week, while speaking at the European Parliament, the MEP called for Europe to return to lignite and to plastic straws, closely following US President Donald Trump’s first declarations. Following Europe’s trend, the parties to the right of New Democracy have gained a new air of confidence with the re-election of the US president. Trumpism glam has also acquired the form of an official invitation through th...

New Left party urges international community not to stay silentATHENSGreek opposition parties on Tuesday slammed renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza as a violation of international law.“The masks are falling and it is proven once again that the real goal of Israel and its allies is the annihilation of the Palestinian people from the region and the burial of the prospect of creating an independent Palestinian state, as is evident from (US President Donald) Trump's recent statements, which essentially foreshadowed today's massacre,” said the Greek Communist Party in a statement.Citing last week’s trilateral meeting in Athens between Greece, the Greek Cypriot Administration, and Israel, in which the parties agreed to further improve ties, the party said the government bears responsibility for the...

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Change font size: - + Reset As a new government came out of the elections held in Greece on the 4th of October 2009, expectations of new home and foreign policies have been discussed in Greece and abroad. The Socialist Party (PASOK) came out victorious and will run the country again after 5 years spent in the opposition banks. PASOK won a high-feathered victory seizing mandates for 160 members of parliament out of the 300 that the Greek assembly counts.Without retard George Papandreu, the new Prime Minister of Greece, proclaimed a number of reforms, among which reducing the number of ministries, giving first-hand presence to women in polit...

Constantine Tassoulas’s candidacy had led to anger among demonstrators decrying Greece’s worst rail disaster.Published On 12 Feb 202512 Feb 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareGreece’s parliament has elected the conservative government’s nominee, Constantine Tassoulas, as the country’s president, despite protester anger as justice is sought for a deadly 2023 train crash.Tassoulas, a key ally of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won the backing of 160 lawmakers in Wednesday’s vote in the 300-seat parliament to succeed Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Greece’s first female president’s five-year term expires in March.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMitsotakis said last month that he chose Tassoulas on account of his political experience, widespread acceptance, and his “...