As I watched Donald Trump’s inauguration in the US Capitol Rotunda – where it moved from the outdoor venue due to the cold weather – I was reminded, with a touch of nostalgia, of my first visit there 55 years ago. So I’m sharing with you a snippet of my memories from that time.

Theodoros Roussopoulos was unanimously re-elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monday in Strasbourg.

A public transport bus crashed into a traffic light pole in Athens’ northern suburbs Monday afternoon after its driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, but no injuries have been reported. 

The European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility is an opportunity that is slipping through our fingers, though, because political expediency has been put above the public interest and is being exploited to serve clientelist and populist interests.

April 6 is officially designated as Thracian Hellenism Day, following a presidential decree issued on January 14.

Law enforcement officials have arrested two men in connection with a deadly shooting in the northern Athens suburb of Thrakomakedones last month, which, according to police, appears to be have been linked to a growing underworld conflict over drug trafficking. 

The European Union agreed a 6-month extension Monday for a raft of sanctions aimed at depriving Russia of funds to finance its war against Ukraine after Hungary lifted its objections to the move.

Abu Dhabi’s PureHealth Holding, owned by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ, has agreed to acquire a 60% stake in Hellenic Healthcare Group, controlled by Jersey-based CVC Capital Partners and operating 10 hospitals and 16 diagnostic centers across Greece and Cyprus. 

An expert hired by an association of families of the victims of the 2023 Tempe train disaster announced on Monday that he will file a lawsuit against Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and a pro-government news website for disputing the authenticity of a leaked audio recording from the disaster.

Google LLC will carry out 3D mapping across Greece from February 4 to October 30 as part of efforts to update its Maps and Street View services.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis confirmed on Monday that a parliamentary debate on the Tempe disaster, requested by SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos, will take place, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in attendance.

More than 50 world leaders, including King Charles III, will join a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors Monday in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.

Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Monday in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of the Council of Europe.

The final budget execution figures for last year, released on Monday, show a primary surplus of 8.698 billion euros.

Finding a property to buy is proving harder than finding the money to buy it for prospective borrowers in My Home II.

An Istanbul prosecutor launched another judicial investigation into the city’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Monday for attempting to influence the judiciary after he criticised legal probes into opposition-run municipalities, Turkish media reported.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, praised the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania during their meeting at the Maximos Mansion on Monday.

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias has directed General Dimitrios Choupis, chief of the Armed Forces, to conduct extraordinary reviews for senior-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force who are eligible for retirement.

The Delphi Economic Forum is holding its 3rd Delphi Brussels Forum at the Sofitel Brussels Hotel in the Belgian capital on Thursday. 

Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet army, and the International and National Day of Commemoration for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.