Georgios Katrougalos

Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee is due on Wednesday to vote on the entirety of the proposals submitted by Greece's political parties and lawmakers after the government and the opposition clashed over the final set of proposed changes.

Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos signed the ratification law for the Prespes agreement which was approved by the Greek Parliament earlier on Friday.

"Greece leads in peace and stability in the Balkans and Europe. A new era for our relations with our neighbors," the minister said in a tweet.

European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen will visit Athens on January 29 to participate in a joint meeting of the Greek Parliament's committees on european affairs, production and trade and economics.

Katainen, who is Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, will speak at a session titled "The future of Europe: Challenges and opportunities."

Nikola Dimitrov, foreign minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, told a press conference in the capital Skopje Sunday that he has been "assured" by Greek Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos that Athens remains "strongly committed" to completing its part of the name deal, the resignation of junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos notwithstanding.

The significance of the Strategic Dialogue between the United States and Greece for bilateral ties was at the center of talks Tuesday between Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos and US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, according to a report by the state run Athens Macedonian news agency.

Greece will not seek to imitate Turkey's escalating rhetoric and provocations, Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said on Friday after chairing a meeting of the National Council for Foreign Affairs (ESEP) to discuss deteriorating relations with Ankara.

New Democracy's shadow foreign minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos on Friday said Greece will not accept any challenge to international law by Turkey, following a meeting of the  National Council for Foreign Affairs (ESEP).

"We will not tolerate any challenge to international law and the existing situation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean," he said.

Greece's Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos has criticized Turkish airspace violations in the Aegean Sea, while condemning the seizure of ethnic Greek minority properties in southern Albania.

The US-Greece Strategic Dialogue began in Washington Thursday, focusing on regional defense, security and energy.

Early images released by the Greek Foreign Ministry Thursday showed Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos, who leads the Greek delegation, in talks with Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell and other officials.

The Greek government has high hopes for the outcome of a much-vaunted US-Greece Strategic Dialogue which is to take place in Washington on Thursday between senior Greek and American officials, focusing on regional defense, security and energy.