Heads of state

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will on Wednesday visit the remote island of Kinaros in the southeastern Aegean.

Sakellaropoulou will meet with the tiny island's sole inhabitant, the 74-year-old Rinio Katsotourchi.

In a public health message issued on Tuesday, Sakellaropoulou urged Greeks to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
 

Romania's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled legislation adopted by parliament last June that effectively banned gender studies in the educational system.

The unveiling of the plaque in Herceg Novi. Photo: BIRN.

The plaque was installed near the former Herzegovina café in the centre of Herceg Novi where Dzumhur used to sit for hours talking to friends and acquaintances.

Three decades after Slovenia’s parties reached a joint agreement on an independence referendum in which an overwhelming majority opted for independence, the country’s first president Milan Kučan says unity cannot be taken be taken for granted, explaining why it is elusive now.

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Former President Traian Basescu said the People's Movement Party (PMP) had crossed the electoral threshold and "not just in any way", anticipating that it would have 7 percent, "without redistribution". "For PMP, these elections showed that it is possible without Basescu.

Greece must honor the people who stood and continue to stand by it in difficult times. From the country's War of Independence to the present day, there have been friends of Greece, or philhellenes, who have played a key role in the nation's course. Driven by the cynicism of our times, skeptics are inclined to debunk such figures.

The passing of former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing is an opportunity to look back on his important contribution to the restoration of Greek democracy and the country's participation in the European Union project.

Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who died on Wednesday, is tied to Greek history by his providing his presidential plane to bring Greek statesman Konstantinos Karamanlis back to Greece from France as the seven-year dictatorship was collapsing in July 1974.

Greece's President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister hailed the role of former French leader Valery Giscard d'Estaing in championing European integration and his support for Greece's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) on the announcement of his death on Wednesday at the age of 94.

National chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban said on Thursday that possible partners with whom the Liberals could form a parliamentary majority after the election are the Save Romania Union (USR), the People's Movement Party (PMP) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR).