Yorgos Katrougalos

US-Greece strategic dialogue covers all levels of bilateral, regional, international cooperation

Though public attention over the last days in Athens focused on yesterday's signing of the bilateral, revised US-Greece Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement (MDCA), which is as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated the "bedrock" of the two countries' defence cooperation, less attention was paid to the importance of the latest round of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue that was held in Was

Dendias vows government will seek broad consensus on foreign policy issues

Confronted with huge foreign policy challenges, the greatest of which is the escalation of Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean, incoming Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has vowed to seek the broadest possible consensus on national issueswith SYRIZA and other opposition parties.

Katrougalos: Dialogue on CBMs with Turkey, no concessions on sovereign rights

"Greece seeks dialogue but it will not cede anything that belongs to her based on international law. With seriousness, lucidity, self-confidence, and national unity we have nothing to fear," writes Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos in an article in the Athens daily Ta Nea.

Tsipras, Mitsotakis clash over constitutional revision

The parliamentary debate on which articles of the Greek Constitution will be amended in the parliamentary session after the next general election led to a battle royal between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis with mutual recriminations about exploiting the process of revising the country's basic law to achieve partisan electoral aims.