David Pearce

The mayor of Thessaloniki Yiannis Boutaris had a courtesy meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Greece David Pearce and the U.S. Consul General Rebecca Fong in his office on Friday.

During the meeting, Boutaris referred to the refugee crisis, Thessaliniki’s touristic development and its investment potential. The meeting was also attended by deputy mayor Spyros Pegas.

Centrist Potami (River) leader Stavros Theodorakis was received in Brussels on Friday by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for a nearly two-hour meeting.

In statements afterwards, Theodorakis told reporters that Juncker believes the last Greek proposal is a “sufficient basis for negotiations”.

US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce will host a Declaration of Independence reception on July 2, as July 4 falls on a Sunday.

Recently there had been rumors that Pearce would leave his post in Greece early, even in June, but this has proved not to be the case.

Pearce will remain as the US ambassador to Greece.

US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce shared a riotous watercolor and pastel view of the Acropolis on Twitter on Wednesday night.

The US ambassador to Greece on Wednesday again condemned the prospect of a man convicted of assassinating US diplomats and military staff being conditionally released from a Greek prison – a “diplomatic thorn” that abruptly emerged following the SYRIZA government’s insistence on passing a relevant law.

A day after Washington placed two convicted Greek guerrillas on a terrorism blacklist, State Minister Nikos Pappas met with US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce for talks that are said to have focused on a new Greek law whose provisions allow the transfer from prison to house arrest of a convicted terrorist.

Washington on Tuesday continued to show its heightened irritation over the leftist Greek government's recently passed law to conditionally release disabled convicts, an initiative that could include notorious "November 17" terrorist Savvas Xiros.

Leftist SYRIZA MPs toed the party line on Monday and ratified a controversial law eliminating ? maximum security prisons in Greece and essentially opening the jailhouse gate for a notorious terrorist.

The US Ambassador to Greece David Pearce has said Washington will view as a ?profoundly unfriendly act? legislation that paves the way for November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros to be released from prison early.

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