Kyriakos Mitstotakis

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis insisted on Thursday that Greece can serve as a natural entry point for energy from the south to the north.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades shovels soil at the opening ceremony of the memorial park in the East Attica town of Mati in memory of the victims of the devastating wildfire in 2018. The work for the park's creation is being carried out thanks to a donation from Cyprus.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis speaks with locals on the island of Evia on Monday while surveying the damage caused by flash floods due to heavy rainfall on Sunday. A prosecutor on the island has ordered an investigation to determine whether any person or body can be held responsible for the deaths of eight people, including an infant, due to the floods.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis will make a televized  address to  the nation at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, according to his Press Office.

He will, reportedly, not announce any new measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 but is expected to make a sincere and realistic assessment of the situation to the public.

Nikos Dendias' first visits as foreign minister to Israel on Sunday and Cyprus the day after, where he will accompany Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis, are seen as a clear indication of the importance the new government is attaching to developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. 

As part of a government crackdown, police will play an active role in enforcing Greece's much-flouted anti-smoking law, while a hotline will also be set up so that members of the public can report violations.

Seeking to highlight his government's intention to improve the daily lives of citizens as a matter of priority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis reaffirmed his intentions yesterday to proceed with thousands of hirings in the health and law enforcement sectors over a six-month period starting this year.

New Democracy (ND) interim leader Yiannis Plakiotakis said that elections for the new party leader on Sunday, December 20, would roll smoothly. He urged members and friends of the party to vote.