Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Self-employed professionals are set to challenge the constitutionality of the new method of taxing their incomes on the basis of presumed revenues.

A lot has been said and written comparing the very different visits paid to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both taking place on December 7, the previous one in 2017 and the most recent one in 2023.

By George Gilson

Katerina Sakellaropoulos was sworn in today as president of the Hellenic Republic.

The moderate, progressive, rights-oriented jurist is the first woman to hold the country's highest office and was until her election in parliament serving as president (again the first woman) of the Council of State, the country's supreme administrative court.

Katerina Sakellaropoulou was sworn in as Greece's first woman president on Friday in a ceremony attended by a small number of dignitaries due to the measures in place to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

In her first statements as Greece's new President, Katerina Sakellaropoulou called on citizens to follow instructions issued by the country's health authorities to the letter to prevent the further transmission of the new coronavirus which has claimed one victim.

Greece's president-elect, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, is to be sworn in on Thursday in a simplified ceremony in Parliament, with few officials present, to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus.

Greece's new president Katerina Sakellaropoulou is to be sworn in at 11 a.m. on Friday in a ceremony at Greece's Parliament which is expected to be small, brief and devoid of physical contact between the participants amid concerns about the continuing spread of the new coronavirus.

Greek gymnast Lefteris Petrounias won gold in rings at the 2020 World Cup Gymnastics in Melbourne on Saturday, bringing him a step closer to the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer.

Athens on Tuesday rebuffed comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu who referred to the Muslim minority in Western Thrace as a "Turkish minority."