Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, has died at 88, state TV ERT reports.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The family of the late Costas Simitis former Prime Minister, his ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis, who ushered the country into the European Union's single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese. ...

The couple posed for a picture with their new passports alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ... "Starting 2020 as an honorary citizen of all of Greece!" Hanks wrote on Twitter ...

ATHENS - Greeks bid farewell on Thursday to former prime minister Costas Simitis, a law professor and reformist, who died last week at the age of 88 and was praised for steering Greece into the ...

ATHENS, Greece — Mourners lined the street outside Athens' central cathedral Thursday for the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, the architect of Greece’s membership of ...

ATHENS — Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, has died at age 88, state TV ERT reported.

Simitis, a law professor and a reformist, assumed leadership of the PASOK socialist party in 1996 and was prime minister until 2004. “With sadness and respect, I bid farewell to Costas Simitis ...

Costas Simitis, Former Greek Prime Minister and Socialist Leader, Dies at 88 ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining ...