The hosting of the Olympics, which took place ... When he stepped down in 2004 he had completed the longest continuous term of any modern Greek prime minister, though Papandreou, over three ...

With Greece unable to pay its debts and the IOC now struggling to find countries willing to host the Olympics, 2004 might be viewed as one of the last Olympics of an era when democratic nations ...

ATHENS--The flame for the Tokyo Olympics ... at the 2004 Athens Games. Among the torchbearers at Ancient Olympia was European Union commissioner for migration Margaritis Schinas, a Greek.

Costas Simitis, who has died aged 88, was the prime minister who bolstered Greece’s self-esteem by taking it into the eurozone and preparing Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games, sealing the country’s ...