John Kittmer

Former UK ambassador to Athens John Kittmer has been chairing the council of Anglo-Hellenic League since early June, he said on his private blog.

"For me, the relationship between Greece and Britain, between Brits and Greeks, has been the most important intellectual passion of my life: an intellectual passion with a strong emotional component," Kittmer says in his post.

Outgoing British Ambassador to Greece John Kittmer recently gave a stirring farewell at the premises of the Benaki Museum in downtown Athens on the theme "Walking in Greece: Landscape/Narrative." Kathimerini has published excerpts of his speech, a poetic and philosophical reading of the country's landscape, which the philhellene Kittmer read out in Greek.

British Ambassador to Greece John Kittmer made a statement following the Greek referendum:

“The Greek people expressed a decisive view in Sunday’s referendum at a critical moment in the economic crisis. Greece is a proud nation, an ally for nearly 200 years of shared history, and we respect the decision of its people.

Panathinaikos and the Greek National Homeless Soccer Team met at the training center of the Greens in Koropi last weekend for an informal soccer get-together, commemorating the “Christmas Truce” at the Western Front in 1914, and following an invitation from the British Embassy in Athens to celebrate human diversity and deliver messages of peace, friendship, solidarity in difficult times and the

A Crimean Tatar youth holding a sign reading ‘No illegal referendum’ as pro-Ukrainian demonstrators marched in the streets of Simferopol on Friday.

By John Kittmer *

A choice isn’t a choice when it is made with a gun to your head.