Evangelos Venizelos

Government spokesman Yannis Economou accused main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras of exploiting the pandemic for petty partisan gain after Tsipras' Facebook post today regarding the proportionately high COVID-19 death rate in Greece.

Venizelos praises government for concluding Greece-France mutual defence pact

Former deputy premier and long-time Pasok minister Evangelos Venizelos praised the government for concluding the Greece-France defence agreement due to the crucial clause on mutual defence assistance in the event that either party is attacked.

The Citizens' Movement for an Open Society and E-Kyklos will be hosting an online debate on Wednesday night titled "The Challenge for American 'Hegemony' after the Election of Biden." 

Public stores and Papadopoulos Editions are organizing a public debate on Thursday titled "One Day After Biden's Inauguration: Greek-Turkish Relations and the Broader Context of Relations between Turkey and the West."

The event will feature former deputy prime minister and foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos.

A judicial probe against a former SYRIZA government minister resumes Friday with the deposition of Evangelos Venizelos, deputy prime minister and foreign minister in the conservative-socialist coalition government of 2013-15.

The coronavirus crisis should herald a change in Greece's production model, prompting a shift away from its tourism-dependent economy, the ongoing Delphi Economic Forum was told on Thursday.

"Society is clearly expecting something different right now from politics and politicians to what it possibly expected some time ago," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said recently. "We all need to rediscover our role, speaking of the opposition but also the government leading the country.

Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras will be participating in a public online debate on Tuesday on a recent decision by Germany's top administrative court on the European Central Bank's bond-buying scheme.

The Delphi Economic Forum and the E-Kyklos think tank are organizing an online debate titled "The Day After in Greek-Turkish Relations," with the participation of former foreign ministers Evangelos Venizelos and Dora Bakoyiannis and former defense minister Evangelos Apostolakis.

We are living in an historic era.

The world is experiencing the greatest crisis since WWII.

The total freezing of the global economy and social life is a phenomenon that is historically unique.

The projections of analysts, economists, and international organisations point to an horrific landscape the day after the pandemic.