President of Greece

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos had a phone conversation with European Council President Donal Tusk on the critical issue of the migrant crisis, Tuesday. Tusk was in transit at the Athens International Airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ when the Greek President requested he intervene to summon an extraordinary EU Summit as soon as possible.

Customary pleasantries and platitudes heard during meetings between the Greek president and visiting political leaders were absent on Thursday, as hard-charging leftist leader Panagiotis Lafazanis demanded that Prokopis Pavlopoulos convene a meeting of political leaders instead of relying on … phone calls.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is considering not convening a meeting of political leaders after another three-day period to form a government given to the head of the newly formed Popular Unity party, Panayiotis Lafazanis, which expires on Thursday.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos expressed the need for an emergency EU-Summit on the issue of refugee and immigrant flows to Europe, while receiving leader of Greek party Potami Stavros Theodorakis at the Presidential Mansion, Wednesday.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos once more reiterated that Greece’s position within the European family during a brief greeting to law students at the Presidential Mansion Tuesday. “The country’s course in the European Union and the Eurozone was and remains non-negotiable and undisturbed”, he said.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on the occasion of the “World Environment Day”, spoke on fiscal development and environment protection. “Each and every one of us needs to assume responsibility towards the conscious protection of the environment, both for the world we live in and the world we aim to ensure for future generations”, he stated.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Saturday with Paul Krugman, the renowned economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008, at the government headquarters in Maximos Mansion.

The meeting between the two men lasted about an hour and a half and no statements were made at its conclusion.

New Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos received a… harsh letter from PASOK president Evangelos Venizelos, asking the former about his presence during the beginning of proceedings of a Parliamentary audit committee on the national debt.

President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday, March 23, will visit the city of Kalamata, the second largest city of the Peloponnese, to attend celebrations for the Independence Day.

The Greek President will attend the doxology at the Church of the Holy Apostles, officiated by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Messinia.

He was the first world leader to call Prokopis Pavlopoulos and wish him every success in his new post. He also underlined the importance of bilateral dialogue. He said the communication channels of their countries were always open and asked him to visit his capital city.