Giorgos Katrougalos

With Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu expected to meet on Thursday on the sidelines of a Council of Europe ministerial meeting, Athens is reportedly attempting to keep communication lines open with Ankara despite the recent escalation of its operations in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean, where Turkish fighter jets violated Greek ai

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos will visit Skopje on Sunday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of North Macedonia's new President, Stevo Pendarovski.
Pendarovski, the candidate backed by the country's center-left government, won the presidency in a runoff election with a conservative rival in early May.

Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos on Monday warned that Greece will take legal recourse if the interests of ethnic Greeks in Albania are in "any way" compromised, following a decision by Albanian authorities to remove bilingual signposts from ethnic Greek villages in the area of Finiki.

In his third trip to China in as many years, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is flying to Beijing on Thursday to attend a summit on the country's Belt and Road Forum in the Chinese capital on Saturday.

Labor and Social Security Minister Effie Achtsioglou said on Tuesday it was possible that some of the dues that 2.5 million pensioners are demanding dating to the period from 2015 to 2016 will be paid out.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos (left) and his Cyprus counterpart Nikos Christodoulides (second left) listen to Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil (right) during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday.

US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan has reaffirmed Washington's commitment to "deepen bilateral cooperation and to continue progress made in key areas since the December 2018 launch of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue," the State Department said in an announcement on Friday.

The Greece-Qatar Business Council is organizing a business mission to Qatar on May 1-3 on the occasion of the visit to Doha by Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos.

The business mission is planned with the support of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Greece and Qatar, as well as the Qatar Chamber of Commerce & Industry (QCCI).

In a resolution on the occasion of the 198th anniversary of Greek independence, the US Senate has emphasized Greece's geostrategic significance and hailed the enhanced framework of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

The resolution, signed by 27 Senators, noted Greece's dedication through time to the values of democracy and freedom.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos has condemned a grenade attack on the Rusian consulate in Athens in the early hours of Friday, which caused minor damage and no injuries.