Yanis Varoufakis

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Friday defended the ECB's role in the Greek debt crisis of 2015, when it froze a cash lifeline for the country's banks - forcing the government to introduce capital controls and weakening its negotiating positions with creditors.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with the leaders of the opposition on Friday in a bid to find common ground over a government bill that will facilitate the vote of Greeks living abroad.

The main aim for Mitsotakis is to secure an overwhelming majority of two-thirds in Parliament, so that the provision can come into force in the next elections.

Unlike 2015, the vast majority of people crossing borders to enter Europe via Greece are migrants, not refugees, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Parliament on Friday.

Costa-Gavras' controversial film "Adults in the Room" opens at the Odeon Opera cinema in Athens on Wednesday.

Costa-Gavras sat patiently in one of the many lounges of the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido in Venice, taking questions from successive groups of three or four journalists. He looked tired, but also happy, smiling.

More than two months after the general election that brought it to power, center-right New Democracy retains a strong lead of 13.5 percentage points over leftist SYRIZA, according to a new opinion poll carried out by Pulse for Skai TV.

French company Lazard will be the new consultant of the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA), replacing Rothschild, with the aim of bringing Greek bonds back to investment grade within the next couple of years.

This decision was reached on Wednesday by the government's Economic Policy Council on the recommendation of the PDMA and an opinion by the State Legal Council.

The term "narcissist," which has become almost a permanent fixture in any description of Yanis Varoufakis - in tones ranging from the deliberate and angry to the lighthearted and playful, sometimes to the point of absolving him of his sins - is inadequate.

The film has been dismissed outright and its director, Costa-Gavras, until recently hailed as one of Greece's top filmmakers, is suddenly being accused by some of getting carried away. Why?

The center-right government on Friday approved in Parliament changes to the criteria for appointing the director of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) - a move aimed at ensuring that the official undertaking the role has adequate professional experience but which provoked angry protests by the opposition.