US Embassy in Athens

The Pulitzer Prize winning Greek-American author Jeffrey Eugenides will visit Athens on September 27 as part of the Athens 2018 World Book Capital celebrations organized by the Municipality of Athens with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the US Embassy in Athens.

The US Embassy in Athens has issued a health alert regarding the West Nile virus to American citizens living in Greece or intending to visit it.

The warning mentions that five people have already died in Greece after contracting the virus, all of them over the age of 70. This number does not take into account the six deaths this week, which brings the total to 11.

The US embassy in Athens slammed on Tuesday a decision by Greek prison authorities to grant Dimitris Koufodinas, a convicted hitman of the now defunct November 17 terrorist group, a third 48-hour furlough, following a two-week hunger strike.

"We thoroughly condemn this third furlough granted to a convicted terrorist and murderer," the embassy said in a tweet.

In a strongly worded tweet Tuesday, the US Embassy in Athens condemned the two attacks on the Hellenic American Union offices in Thessaloniki and Athens by anarchist groups who support hunger-striker and jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

The US embassy in Athens on Tuesday strongly condemned the two attacks on the Hellenic American Union offices in Thessaloniki and Athens by anarchist groups who support hunger-striker and jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

"We strongly condemn the recent attacks on American educational institutions in Thessaloniki and Athens," the embassy said in a tweet.

Under the auspices of the US Embassy in Athens, the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) are co-organizing the "Trading in US Waters: Priorities and Solutions" seminar, which will take place on Thursday, June 7, during the Posidonia 2018 shipping exhibition.

The staff of the US Embassy in Athens on Friday observed a minute's silence for members of the US Foreign Service killed by the now defunct Greek domestic terrorist group November 17.

They did so on the occasion of Foreign Affairs Day, an annual commemoration of those who lost their lives serving the US overseas.

I recently attended a lecture at the Hellenic Institute of Architecture by Alexandros K. Samaras, an architect and longtime chairman of the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation's Board of Directors, on Walter Gropius and his mid-1950s design for the US Embassy in Athens.

The project of renovating the building of the US Embassy in Athens, on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, is underway, the embassy announced on Tuesday.

The US administration has contracted US-based Caddell Construction company to renovate and rehabilitate the historic "Chancery" building, designed by Walter Gropius, and inaugurated on July 4, 1961.

The Netherlands Embassy in Greece was late Thursday holding its quarterly pitching competition in which startups can win up to 15,000 euros.

Thursday's event, dubbed "The Squeeze," featured eight female pitchers and four expert women judges, in honor of International Women's Day.