President of Greece

President Barack Obama arrived in Greece on Tuesday on his last foreign tour as president of the United States, and Athens said it held out hope that he would help persuade the country's creditors to restructure some of its monumental debt.

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcomed US President Barack Obama at the Presidential Palace. Pavlopoulos expressed his gratitude to President Obama for the solidarity on the humanitarian crisis, adding his belief that President-elect Donald Trump would continue on a similar path.

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Barack Obama is expected to meet with the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Palace. The US motorcade has departed from the Asrteras resort hotel in Vouliagmeni and is expcted to shortly arrive.

Celebrations of the October 28 National Day in Greece culminate with the student parades in Athens and the military parade in Thessaloniki. The President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos is in attendance at the military parade, as well as Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and leader of major opposition party New Democracy (ND), Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

In an effort to regain the political initiative, following the rejection of the TV license tenders by the Council of State (CoS), the country’s supreme administrative court, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called for the convening of the council of presidents in parliament for Monday, in a last ditch attempt to reach an agreement with opposition parties on the formation of the National Counc

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos attended religious celebrations in honour of St. Dimitrios, the patron saint of Thessaloniki, Wednesday. The Greek President arrived a little after 11am at the Church of St. Dimitrios, where a large crowd greeted him with warm applause.

The official welcome ceremony for new US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt took place on the US 6th Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney, in the port of Piraeus south of Athens, Monday.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos lauded the example set by the hero of Greece’s independence war in 1821, Georgios Karaiskakis, on occasion of the celebrated warrior’s 188th commemoration anniversary.

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos called for solidarity within the ranks of the EU on the refugee crisis in an exclusive interview to Italian newspaper ‘Il Messagero’. He dubbed the proposal put forward by Italian PM Mateo Renzi for the EU to fund African countries to effectively guard their borders ‘very interesting and realistic’.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos called on everyone to work for the Mediterranean Sea to become a sea of peace and not a crucible of souls’, during a speech to the Greek Diaspora in Geneva.