University of Piraeus

Ambassador Richard Morningstar, the founding director and chairman of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council, notes that Greece can play a role in promoting as well as benefit from a transparent and competitive energy market in Europe.

After the constant efforts of successive governments and with anti-Americanism on the left of the political spectrum at unprecedented low levels, Greece appears to be vying for the geostrategic role it deserves in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.

A new wave of vandalism on Thursday, carried out by self-styled anarchists, fueled concerns that acts of lawlessness that have unsettled Athens and other cities in recent weeks are becoming increasingly commonplace.

Hooded hooligans claiming to be acting against the "establishment" staged multiple attacks on various targets in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday.

Unidentified assailants on Thursday entered an auditorium at the University of Piraeus where a professor of international security was giving a lecture and hurled paint at her and around the room.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is expected on a state visit to Greece on Sunday.

During the visit, which is due to last until Wednesday, Rivlin will hold meetings with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, amongst others.

"I am looking forward to the strengthening of relations between our countries," he said last week.

A 24-year-old Greek innovator who devised a way to utilize washed-up seagrass has made it onto this year's prestigious Forbes list of 30 European entrepreneurs under the age of 30 who are shaking up their respective sectors in 2018.

Translated from the original Greek by George Gilson

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that neither Greeks nor Germans are infallible during a ceremony where he was made an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Piraeus.