Nicos Anastasiades
Cyprus
Cyprus Holds Presidential Election
Cyprus is holding a presidential election on Sunday where the successor to President Nicos Anastasiades will be elected.
A record number of candidates will compete in the elections. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a runoff will...
Cyprus
President Anastasiades Bids Farewell to Greece as Leader of Cyprus
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades visited Greece for the last time as President and conveyed his gratitude for Athens’s constant support to his government.
Elections for a new president of Cyprus are held this weekend. Anastasiades, of the Democratic Rally, who...
Diplomacy
Greece, Egypt Discuss Clean Energy Pipeline to Europe
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime minister of Greece, participated in the critical discussions on climate change at the UN COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on Tuesday.
Mitsotakis also took part in the high-level presentation, "Coordinating Climate Change Actions in...
Cyprus
Cyprus FM Christodoulides Resigns Eying Presidency
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, released a statement on Sunday revealing that he had tendered his resignation several days ago and hinted at a possible bid for the presidency at the 2023 elections.
In statements...
Greek church
Pope Francis Arrives in Greece
Pope Francis arrived in Greece on Saturday morning for a three-day visit as head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Vatican state
Cyprus
Cyprus Revokes 45 Golden Visas in the Wake of Last Year’s Scandal
The Cypriot government announced on Friday that it would rescind the citizenship of 45 foreign investors and their relatives who acquired Cypriot passports through the country's corrupt 'golden visas' scheme.
The decision was reached after an independent inquiry into the...
Greek church
Greek PM Mitsotakis Meets Archbishop Elpidophoros Putting Spat Behind
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Archbishop Elpidophoros on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday, seemingly putting behind the spat caused by the Archbishop's participation at a Turkish event earlier in the week.
They discussed issues of...
Greek church
Cyprus President Reportedly Snubs Archbishop Elpidophoros Over Turkey Event
The President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday cancelled a scheduled meeting with Archbishop Elpidophoros in New York because, according to reports, the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America attended a ceremony for the opening of the...
Cyprus
President Anastasiades “Not Optimistic” on Cyprus UN Talks
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday that he is not as optimistic as he would like to be about the informal tripartite meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, set to take...
events
AHEPA Celebrates 99 Years of Service in Athens Convention
Celebrating 99 years, the order of AHEPA commenced in Athens with its international convention in plenary sessions and ceremonies, bestowing the organization’s highest honors on the President of the Hellenic Republic, the Prime Minister of Greece and the President of Cyprus.