Greece

The UK issue of National Geographic Traveler gives travelers around the world 11 reasons to visit Greece in its May issue whose cover story is titled "Return to Greece".

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller will meet with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis in Athens on Tuesday.

They are due to discuss "current energy issues of interest," according to a media statement of the Energy Ministry, as cited by Reuters.

The leftist-led Greek government is rapidly losing popularity as negotiations with international creditors drag on with little hope of a resolution anytime soon, a poll conducted by the University of Macedonia and presented on Skai television on Monday night has found.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has signed on a number of specialized economists to help come up with ways to take Greece out of its quandary.

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U.S. State Secretary John Kerry noted his country's awareness of the challenges Greece is going through and referred to the close relations of the United States and Greece. On his part, Kotzias said that he was in the U.S. as a friend to someone who works with Greece for democracy and peace against terrorism.

Here is the full transcript of their talk:

The embattled director of Greece’s National Theatre spoke to protothema.gr this week over his very public and contentious clash with the new alternate culture minister, charging that the latter continues to demand his resignation in order to appoint someone “close” to the ruling SYRIZA party.

The government invited Chinese firms on Monday to bid in a Greek tender for deep-sea oil and gas exploration later this year after Athens extended the bidding process in March.

The US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce has said Washington will view as a ?profoundly unfriendly act? legislation that paves the way for November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros to be released from prison early.

Amalia Sotiropoulou completes her artistic trilogy with her exhibition titled “Missing Sister-Trilogy”. The exhibition is set to open on the 23rd of April at 19.30 local time in the Skoufa gallery.

Tourist arrivals in Corfu over Easter show a clear rise, especially through chartered or commercial airliners.

The reported rise reached 17.6%, with ten extra flights being handled by the Corfu airport over Easter holidays.

Mykonos island as well as Chios and Limnos also showed an increase in air traffic, with tourists visiting the islands for holidays.