Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Officials in Brussels are reportedly concerned about an agreement signed between Greece and Israel earlier this month to facilitate travel between the two tourism-dependent countries for people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that the rate of vaccinations against Covid-19 in the country depends on the availability of vaccines and called the European Union to avoid further delays in their roll out in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday hailed the launch of Greece's National Register for Children and Teenagers with Neoplastic Disease, describing it as a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers.

At the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign and Defense ministries, top officials are engaged in a two-pronged sustained effort to expand Greece's alliances in the wider region and upgrade its defense capabilities.

In these efforts, and especially on defense, Israel is emerging as a pivotal ally, high-ranked sources in government tell Kathimerini.

At present, the government is preoccupied with health-related indicators, closely watching the spread of the coronavirus and hoping there won't be any major resurgence in cases over the next two months. But, after that, priorities will change.

The "Philia (Friendship) Forum" that brought together in Athens four Mediterranean states (Cyprus, Egypt, France and Greece) and three Gulf states (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) on Thursday apparently touched a raw nerve in Turkey, which reacted with a strongly worded statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy.

In his recent speech in Parliament on the education reform bill, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that "nowhere in the world do we see scenes like those at our universities, where historic buildings are vandalized… and, more importantly, people are threatened, professors beaten and girls raped." The response from opposition leader Alexis Tsipras was: "You've had to go as far as telling u

Turkey's leadership has once again entered a phase of unrestrained inflammatory rhetoric.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented his position: Athens should not be involved in a war of words.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the seven participating countries were planning to have regular contacts

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited on Saturday the first Covid-19 vaccination mega centre in the northern Athenian suburb of Marousi, set up to ramp up the number of daily inoculations in the country.

The center, dubbed Prometheus, will open its doors on Monday (Feb. 15) and will be the first of four that will eventually operate in the country.