Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann is in Greece to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday.

Parliament?s debt audit commission is to announce its preliminary findings Wednesday and Thursday.

The inquiry is being overseen by Parliament Speaker Zoe Constantopoulou, who is due to deliver the committee?s preliminary report on Thursday.

Among those due to speak on Wednesday is Eric Toussaint, a Belgian academic who is the committee?s scientific adviser.

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.

Events are taking place throughout Greece on Tuesday to mark the Pontic Genocide of 1914-1923, when Ottoman and then nationalist Turkish forces slaughtered upwards of 368,000 Christian Pontians in what is modern-day Turkey’s northeast, particularly along the Black Sea coast.

17 years after the death of former President of Republic and conservative New Democracy leader Constantinos Karamanlis, a memorial service was held at “Constantinos Karamanlis Institute”, at the Athens suburb of Filothei on Tuesday.

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.

Parliament President called the Investigating Committee on Debt as one "for the truth and accountability to the Greek people and to society" in her opening speech during the procedure for the establishment of the committee at noon on Saturday.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus' capital city, on Tuesday and walked the streets of the buffer zone, the demilitarised area patrolled by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.

On his first official visit abroad since becoming Greek president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited Cyprus on Monday, where he backed Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades?s decision last year to suspend reunification talks on the island after a Turkish research vessel entered the country?s exclusive economic zone.