President of Greece

She issued her statement after the uproar triggered by revelations that the phone of centre-left PASOK-KINAL party was tapped by EYP during the period of the party leadership campaign,

'These days, when the threat of war weighs heavily on Ukraine, our thoughts turn to the Greek communities of the Azov [region, near the Black Sea], to all those cities and villages where Greek is still spoken,' the Greek President said.

President Sakellaropoulou's message to Turkey is that it has exploited refugees and has adressed Greece with unseemly language, which undermines the mores of international relations and any sense of diplomacy.

President-elect Sakellaropoulou spoke of a 'society that by relying on its democratic tradition heals the wounds of the past, confronts current challenges, and looks to the future with optimism'.

Greece's president-elect is independent, ecologically sensitive, dedicated, and has demonstrated her respect for the rule of law.

Politicians during the crisis were unable to do the self-evident – to have everyone table their proposals for the economy to transcend the impasse and find a path of recovery.

In failing to protect universities, the state proves that it is essentially unable to protect academic freedom. In ignoring the pleas of the academic community, the state is failing to uphold basic rights.

When FYROM citizens refer to 'Macedonians of the Aegean', they refer directly to an irredentist tradition that views the geographically largest part of Macedonia, which is the northern province of Greece, as an unliberated territory, essentially as a Greek-occupied part of their country.

No constitutional amendment process should be undertaken without the requisite institutional depth, authority, and value. No revision should cater to populist or other types of thinking.