Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Foreign ministers and senior officials from several Persian Gulf countries are meeting in Athens on Thursday, as Greece seeks to expand alliances to counter tension with regional rival Turkey.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended the government's education reform bill on Thursday saying it "responds boldly to the age-old problem of university security."

"There are regulations that address problems that go back decades, others that address current issues and others that open horizons to the future," he told lawmakers during the debate in Parliament.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got personal on Wednesday with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing the Greek prime minister of provoking him, urging him to know his limits and making barely veiled threats of war.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got personal on Wednesday with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing the Greek prime minister of provoking him, urging him to know his limits and making barely veiled threats of war.

MeRA25 party said that its lawmeksr and Vice-President of Parliament, Sofia Sakorafa, was attacked by riot police outside Attica police headquarters on Wednesday evening.

Sakorafa was at the building along with others after a roundup of protesters against the education bill and tried to intervene.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the only way to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus was to establish two states on the island, and a federation favored by Athens would not be on the agenda of upcoming talks.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday lauded the investment of Chinese company Cosco as an "example of mutually beneficial cooperation."

The measures that will apply to the administrative region of Attica as of Thursday will be revealed at noon on Wednesday by Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias.

The minister is expected to provide a detailed picture of how the new two-week hard lockdown will affect life in Greece's capital and its suburbs, the country's most populous region.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday a near-total lockdown in the most populous region of Greece until February 28 on Tuesday evening, citing a "worrying" rise in hospitalizations in Attica and in the spread of the Covid-19 variants which are more transmissible.

The new restrictions will come into effect on Thursday (Feb. 11).

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address the nation on Tuesday evening with a message on the pandemic and measures to protect public health, his office said on Tuesday afternoon.

The televised message is scheduled at 7.30 p.m.