Costas Douzinas

Greece is "fully determined" to ratify its agreement with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to change the latter's name, Costas Douzinas, a member of ruling SYRIZA and head of the parliamentary committee on foreign relations, has told Bloomberg.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is on Thursday due to brief Parliament's cross-party committee for defense and foreign affairs in the wake of last week's visit to Greece by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Kotzias called on Monday for the committee to convene on Thursday.

Wendy Brown, professor of political science at the University of Berkeley, California, and author of "Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution" (2015), among others, will be speaking at the Athens Concert Hall on Monday, October 16.

After years of struggling under austerity imposed by its European Union partners and a chilly shoulder from the United States, Greece has embraced the advances of China, its most ardent and geopolitically ambitious suitor.

In association with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the Athens Concert Hall presents a lecture titled "Women on the Verge of Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe" on Monday, October 24. The talk will be delivered by professor and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities co-director Jacqueline Rose.