Greece

The Greek government has announced an accelerated push for economic reforms, including the rollout of three new European subsidy funds worth €8 billion, a new labor bill, and new regulations for building in small settlements with under 2,000 residents.

President of the Hellenic Republic Constantine Tassoulas met on Friday with Nick Larigakis, President of the American Hellenic Institute (AHI), and a group of Greek-American students visiting Greece and Cyprus as part of their 17th annual educational tour.

At Friday’s “4th Briefing for the Citizens,” government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis outlined key priorities including the approval of private, non-profit universities, Greece's stance on Middle East tensions, and upcoming economic measures.

During a visit to Mount Athos on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the monastic state a “luminous centre of spiritual offering” and a “compass in a world that often loses its orientation.”

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with RWE CEO Dr. Markus Krebber on Thursday to discuss the German energy giant’s expanding investments in Greece.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis announced Thursday that Greece's unemployment rate dropped to 7.9% in May—the lowest since 2008—down from 10.5% a year ago and 8.3% in April.

Speaking at the ECONOMIST IMPACT event on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted how far Greece has come since its economic crisis a decade ago.

PASOK – Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis met with former European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Wednesday in Athens.

Greece has been elected to the Executive Board of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for the 2025–2027 term, the Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday.

The European Commission has endorsed Greece’s revised National Recovery and Resilience Plan, “Greece 2.0,” ensuring the country fully utilizes its allocation from the Recovery Fund without any reduction in funding.

The Government Council on National Security (KYSEA), chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, convened on Wednesday to assess regional developments and migration issues.

The Greek government expressed full satisfaction with its efforts to combat sports-related violence over the past 18 months during a joint press conference on Wednesday.

Euronext has confirmed it is in talks with the board of Hellenic Exchanges-Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) about a possible acquisition of up to 100% of ATHEX shares.

Over a quarter of Greeks have a hidden savings account their partner doesn't know about, according to a nationwide survey by the savings and investment app Plum.

At the 29th Economist Roundtable on Tuesday, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner and Greece’s new Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris emphasized the need for more effective asylum procedures, stronger return mechanisms, and better coordination among EU member states on migration.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner on Tuesday in Athens to discuss the implementation of the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact.

Greece's UN Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack on the Greek Orthodox Church of Prophet Elias in Damascus.

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis told Parliament on Monday that the Turkish-Libyan maritime memorandum is "invalid and unsubstantiated" under international law.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Monday the creation of a special task force to recover EU agricultural subsidies wrongly paid by the OPEKEPE payments authority.

Greek Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis announced Monday that the government will reclaim unjustified agricultural subsidies received by opportunists.

The Ministry of Digital Governance held a handover ceremony on Monday following the resignation of Deputy Minister Christos Boukoros due to the OPEKEPE case.

The controversy surrounding OPEKEPE, Greece’s EU aid-paying authority for farmers, dominated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s weekly update on Sunday.