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Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou arrived at Bled on Monday for the Bled Strategic Forum, at the invitation of Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar.

Sakellaropoulou was welcomed by Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob and Foreign and European Affairs Minister Tanja Fajon.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Monday arranged for hundreds of meals to be delivered to four charities that feed people in need. 

Sakellaropoulou took the initiative after a big reception that had been planned at the Presidential Mansion to mark the 49th anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Greece was canceled due to the wildfires. 

The composition of the new Parliament with a total of eight parties "creates many challenges for its new president", President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told the House Speaker at a meeting on Monday morning.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou voted on Sunday at the 44th primary school in central Athens.

She did not make any statement to the press. 

Yiannis Markopoulos, one of Greece's most influential composers, was laid to rest on Thursday after a funeral service held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. 

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas, a senior judicial official who is president of the Court of Audit, as caretaker prime minister on Wednesday to form a government that will lead the country to a repeat election on June 25, after last weekend's inconclusive vote.

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The biggest and perhaps the only argument I ever had with my grandmother was as a teenager, when I began chatting online with a boy in the suburbs of Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

In a world of massive change, Greece "looks to the future with optimism and self-confidence" and remains a committed member of a united Europe and the West, upholding universal values, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Wednesday at the opening speech for the eighth installment of the Delphi Economic Forum.

Significant efforts are under way to ensure that the period of flux between the two expected rounds of voting in Greece's general elections brings no unpleasant surprises with regard to the easing of tension in Greek-Turkish relations, but also to prepare for any likely upsets from the elections in Turkey.

It was under a bright, warm sun in June last year when I arrived at the Patriotic Institution for Social Welfare and Awareness (PIKPA), a building which holds secrets and history and heartache in its very bones. Comfortably set on a hillside of Penteli outside of Athens, I was there to find out more about myself.