A Greece-United States Action Plan for culture was signed on Tuesday by Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and visiting US State Department Secretary Antony Blinken, prior to the latter's departure from Athens.
On Friday, Greece’s Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias said that Greece will experience a 20 percent increase in tourism this year. He also predicted a lengthening of the season this summer.
Three Greek citizens, who for the last few days were volunteering in the earthquake-affected town of Armutlu in southeastern Turkey, were apprehended by the Turkish Anti-Terrorism Service.
Greece’s Culture Ministry announced plans Wednesday for a major renovation of the National Archaeological Museum, expanding exhibition space at the Athens site that houses what is considered the most important collection of Greek antiquities in the world.
Culture in Greece is once again "under persecution", main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras asserted in parliament on Monday, during the debate on a draft bill concerning museums, after first referring to the death of former minister and SYRIZA deputy Nektarios Santorinios, who died earlier the same day at the age of 51.
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis have affirmed their keenness to boost mutual cooperation on the bilateral level, especially in investment, trade exchange, as well as energy and power linkage.
