Magnus Brunner, the European Union’s new commissioner for migration and internal affairs, is in Athens to discuss the bloc's migration policies with Greece, which has long been one of the major entry points into the EU for migrants.

The European Union’s top migration official says deportations of migrants who entered the bloc illegally will be a priority this year

Mitsotakis nominated Konstantinos Tasoulas, the speaker of Parliament, as the next President to replace Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominated parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas from his centre-right New Democracy party for the Greek presidency on Wednesday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the European Commission on Tuesday to tackle power price discrepancies across the bloc, repeating previous calls for an electricity market with a more even sharing of electricity.

The vote to elect the new Speaker of Parliament will take place on Wednesday – Kaklamanis is one of the longest-serving parliamentarians, having been first elected in 1990

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has proposed the current speaker of parliament to be the country’s next president

Greece’s conservative government has nominated Parliament Speaker Constantine Tassoulas, a leading advocate for the return of disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum, to become the country’s next president.

Mourners lined the streets outside Athens’ central cathedral for the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, the architect of Greece’s joining the European Union’s common currency.

The Prime Minister is accompanied by Ministers Gerapetritis, Dendias, Theodorikakos, Skylakakis, Kefalogianni and Mendoni

Greek former prime minister Costas Simitis, the architect of the country's eurozone entry, was laid to rest Thursday in a state funeral. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an address at the funeral that Simitis will be remembered for "his unwavering belief in (Greece's) European orientation and his constant effort for Greece to converge with the most developed,