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The aim of the new government is to see Greek tourism industry becoming "strong, competitive and sustainable," noted new Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, speaking at the ministry handover ceremony on Tuesday, with outgoing caretaker Tourism Minister Ioanna Dretta.

Labor Minister Kostis Hatzidakis has appointed Michalis Kefalogiannis to sort out the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA), where problems appear to be out of control.

The public will need to wear masks when using public transportation, Deputy Infrastructure and Transport Minister Yiannis Kefalogiannis said on Tuesday, speaking after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the gradual rollback of coronavirus-related measures.

Greece's Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis was on Wednesday scheduled to visit the two Greek soldiers that are being detained in Turkey since March after accidentally crossing a borderline between the two countries.

Voutsis, currently in Istanbul for a summit of parliament speakers, was expected to arrive at Edirne prison at 5 p.m.

Greece's conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged Turkey to end the "illegal detention" of two Greek servicemen arrested in early May for straying into Turkish territory during a border patrol.

"[Turkey] must end the illegal detention of our two officers here and now," Mitsotakis said during a visit to the northern Greek city of Alexandroupoli.

New Democracy MEP Manolis Kefalogiannis was on Monday scheduled to visit the two Greek soldiers who have been detained in a prison in Edirne since early March after accidentally crossing the Turkish border in bad weather.

New Democracy MEP Manolis Kefalogiannis will visit in the next two weeks the two Greek soldiers who have been detained in a prison in Edirne since early March after accidentally crossing the Turkish border in bad weather, according to information reported by Greek broadcaster Skai on Tuesday.

Main opposition New Democracy lawmakers walked out of a parliamentary debate Friday in protest at what conservatives described as a "tsunami" of last-minute amendments to a bill submitted by the Finance Ministry.

New Democracy lawmakers walked out of Friday's parliamentary debate in protest at what the main opposition party described as a "tsunami" of last-minute amendments to a bill submitted by the Finance Ministry.

The party's parliamentary spokesman, Ioannis Kefalogiannis, accused the SYRIZA-led government of disrespecting the Parliament's legislative process.

Two members of the Turkish parliament have penned joint letters addressed to Kati Piri, rapporteur for Turkey at the European Parliament, and Manolis Kefalogiannis, the co-chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, expressing "sadness" over what they called "falling into the trap of politicizing a painful period in history," in regards to the mass killing of Anatolian Armenians durin