Frank-Walter Steinmeier

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (center) and his wife Elke Buedenbender are guided around the Acropolis Museum by its president, Dimitris Pantermalis (r), on Saturday. Steinmeier, in Athens on a two-day visit, also attended the opening of the documenta 14 art exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST). "I cannot imagine [the EU] without Greece.

It just takes a visit to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened - no small feat considering how many years of failed efforts it's taken - to welcome one of the main exhibitions of the documenta 14 international art fair, to understand the spirit, sheer breadth and kaleidoscopic approach of this event, one of the world's biggest and most important.

BELGRADE - German Ambassador Axel Dittmann on Wednesday conveyed to Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic the congratulations of Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his victory in the Serbian presidential elections.

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed the Greek people’s gratitude to his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier during their joint press conference in Athens, Friday. “The Greek people will not forget how much you have contributed in order for Greece to remain in the Eurozone, during the crisis”, Mr.

The European Union must remain united in the face of challenges to the European idea and Brexit. This is the message of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who arrives in Athens on Friday. In an interview with Kathimerini, the 61-year-old Social Democrat stresses the need to advance European integration, calling on the nations of the bloc to assume their responsibilities.

Ahead of an official two-day visit to Athens beginning today, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has told Kathimerini in an exclusive interview that Greece must push forward with crucial reforms to achieve economic stability and social cohesion while also underlining the need for unity in a European Union grappling with Brexit.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he will continue to call European countries "Nazis" as long as they continue to call him a dictator.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he would call the European countries fascists as long as they continue to call him a dictator.

In his first public speech, as reported on March 22, new German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier directly criticized Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, asking him to stop "jeopardizing everything" that he has built "with others" so far. "The way we look [at Turkey] is characterized by worry that everything built up over years and decades is collapsing," Steinmeier said.

If Europeans continue to act in the same way with respect to Turkey, they will not be safe anywhere, stated Turkish President Recep Erdogan at a meeting with journalists in Ankara.

"If Europe continues in this way, no European - anywhere in the world - will now be able to walk the streets and be safe," stated Erdogan, cited by Reuters.