Prime Minister of Greece

A meeting at the White House is always a significant event. However, the United States is more than Washington, the capital, where Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to arrive on Monday. There are other major cities, such as Chicago, which Tsipras is also scheduled to visit - and with good reason.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to travel to the United States on October 17 for a visit where he will probably see for himself how much the Greek diaspora's influence in Washington has waned.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomes Dutch Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem at his office in the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Monday. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his government's re-election in September 2015 was tantamount to voter approval of a package of new measures agreed with the country's creditors.

Serbia and Greece signed on Thursday in Thessaloniki six interstate agreements.

The signing ceremony was attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who headed the country's high state delegation, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in central Athens Wednesday to pay their respects to Constantine Mitsotakis, the former conservative prime minister who died this week aged 98.

The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in Israel attending the ceremony of delivery of maintenance work, protection and restoration of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

He is accompanied by the Ministers of the cabinet and MPs and officials of all the political parties.

The maintenance works were done by over 40 Greek restoration experts and archaeologists.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday congratulated Mark Rutte for his victory in Wednesday's Dutch elections.

The Greek prime minister spoke with his Dutch counterpart on the telephone and expressed his support for the outcome.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with President of France Francois Hollande in Paris on Wednesday and that could have been an interesting meeting if there had not been endless and  similar “political negotiations” between prime minister and European leaders with the known memorandum result of last July.

An agreement between the Chinese shipping and port group Cosco and Greek government will be signed on Friday noon regarding the concession of 51% of the Piraeus Port (OLP).

The agreement will be signed at Maximos Mansion in the presence of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.