President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo became the godmother of the first ever Greek ship made in the Philippines, the C/S Argolikos, ordered by the Hellenic shipping conglomerate Dioryx Maritime Corp from Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines.
“C/S Argolikos shows off to the whole world the excellence of the Filipino workforce in building vessels to sail the seven [...]
[continue reading...]The Commission on Elections announced that the start of the registration period for overseas absentee voters has been postponed to 01 February 2009, and will end on 31 August 2009.
The Philippine Embassy urges all our kababayans residing in Greece, who are at least eighteen (18) years of age on the day of elections and are [...]
H.E. Rigoberto Tiglao, the Philippine Ambassador to Greece, was one of three guest speakers at the launching of Steve Psinakis’ book, “A Country Not Even His Own” at the Rockwell Center in Metropolitan Manila in July. The other two speakers were former close comrades of the hero Ninoy Aquino– former senators Heherzon Alvarez Jr. and [...]
[continue reading...]Mga Kababayan, welcome to the website of the Philippine Embassy in Athens!
Through this website, the Philippine Embassy hopes to reach out to you, our kababayans in Greece and in Cyprus, and to provide you with immediate access to the Philippine Embassy’s services.
Browse through the Consular Services page for information about passport and visa issuance, registration [...]
Philippine Embassy hosts “Meet My Country Day” for Women’s International Club
The Philippine Embassy in Athens hosted and presented last April 2, 2008 an event entitled “Meet My Country Day-Philippines” for the Women’s International Club (WIC) of Athens.
Ambassador Rigoberto D. Tiglao and Madame Getsy S. Tiglao led the embassy officials and staff in welcoming the guests [...]
Ambassador Rigoberto Tiglao is pleased to announce the reduction of fees for passports and other consular services such as notarials, visas, and citizenship reacquisition, effective 13 March 2008.
The reduction of consular services fees abroad is based on the directive of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to all Philippine foreign posts to ease the financial burden of [...]
(DFA Press Release, 17 June 2008)
The Philippine Embassy marked the 110th anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine independence with two major, well-attended events in Athens: a Diplomatic Reception for the corps diplomatique at prestigious Athenaeum Intercontinental and, a few days, later on 15 June 2008 a fiesta-type celebration with the Filipino community at the [...]
Starting 01 June 2008, the new Machine Readable Passport (MRP) will be available to Filipinos overseas applying for a Philippine Passport.
It has unique features, more secure and is capable of being read by a passport machine reader at international borders. Compared to manually read passports that preceded them, it contains various security features like the [...]
21 January 2008 – Philippine Ambassador to Greece Rigoberto Tiglao was featured in “Eleftheros”, a widely circulated newspaper in Greece.
The two-paged article headlined, “We Want Closer Cooperation with Greece,” reported on the achievements of Ambassador Tiglao in strengthening relations between the Philippines and Greece and in improving the image of our kababayans in Greece.
“In just [...]
