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2017 In Greece
Events in the year 2017 in Greece. Incumbents *President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos *Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras Events * Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team. January * Greece is given a rating of 35/40 regarding political rights, and a rating of 49/60 regarding civil liberties, by Freedom House. May *13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house. *13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest. *18 May - UPSat is deployed from the International Space Station, making it the first satellite manufactured in Greece to get into orbit. June *12 June – The 6.3 Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), killing one and injuring ten. July *21 July – The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''), killing two and injuring 480. September * 9 September - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Greece
The president of Greece, officially the president of the Hellenic Republic (), commonly referred to in Greek as the president of the Republic (, ΠτΔ), is the head of state of Greece. The president is elected by the Hellenic Parliament; the role has been mainly ceremonial since the 1986 constitutional reform. The office was formally established by the Constitution of Greece in 1975, but has antecedents in the Second Hellenic Republic of 1924–1935 and the Greek junta in 1973–1974 which predated the Metapolitefsi, transition to the current Third Hellenic Republic. Powers The president is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Greek Armed Forces and occupies the first place in the country's order of precedence. Although the Greek Constitution of 1974 vested the presidency with considerable powers on paper, in practice presidents took a largely ceremonial role; the Prime Minister of Greece, prime minister of Greece is the active chief executive of the Greek government an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
