US Embassy in Athens

A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Athens confirmed on Thursday hat a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had indeed been scheduled for Tuesday.

Herro Mustafa from California will be the next Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Bulgaria. She was nominated as Ambassador by President Donald Trump, reports BNT. 

By George Gilson

The United States has extended the validity of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) for Greek citizens to two years after the country implemented improvements in border security, the US embassy in Athens said in a press release on Thursday.
Until now, the US issued ESTAs with a one-year validity to Greek citizens traveling under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).

Next Monday the US Embassy in Athens, together with the US Mission to the European Union, the Atlantic Council, and diaNEOsis, will launch #DisinfoWeek Europe, a week-long series of strategic dialogues focused on the global challenge of disinformation, with a public event in Athens.

The Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE) and Cornell University are continuing their cooperation this year with the support of the US Embassy to offer Greek tourism and hospitality professionals access to the New York-based institution's online courses.

Greece is "a pillar of stability in a complicated region," according to the State Department's Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) for the EU member and NATO ally, which recognizes the country's position in the Eastern Mediterranean as being of key importance to US national security and energy priorities.

Former conservative foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis said on Monday that anarchist group Rouvikonas is guided by the shooter of the now defunct November 17 terror group, following the group's vandalism of the US embassy in Athens.

Early Monday morning, Rouvikonas members splashed paint at the side entrance of the US embassy in Athens.

The centrist party To Potami condemned an attack of vandalism by the Rouvikonas anarchist group against the US Embassy in Athens on Monday, saying that the assault "compromises Greeks on the international stage."

A group of vandals belonging to the anarchist group Rouvikonas hurled red paint at the US Embassy in Athens in the early hours of Monday morning.

The attack took place at 3.30 a.m. when the assailants lobbed bottles and balloons full of paint at the embassy's parking area, on the junction of Dorileou and Makedonon streets, before fleeing on scooters.