2008

Events

January

• January 1: The euro replaces the pound as the currency of Cyprus.
• January 8: An Athens court granted parole to Costas Agapiou, the last jailed member of ELA, three years into his 25-year prison term.
• January 15: Greek Australian fans are maced by Victoria Police during an Australian Open match between Konstantinos Economidis and Chile's Fernando Gonzalez.
• January 16: Olympiakos humble Panathinaikos 4-0 to advance into the Greek Football Cup's quarterfinal round.
• January 23: PM Costas Karamanlis visits Turkey marking the first official visit by a Greek PM to that country since 1959.
• January 31: New Democracy (ND) deputy Costas Koukodimos announces that he was leaving the party's Parliamentary group and to become an independent. His resignation reduced New Democracy's majority in the 300-seat house to just 151.

February

• February 2: A group of extreme leftists clashed with right-wing (Chrysi Avgi) demonstrators, injuring at least three people and prompting riot police to fire tear gas and blockade streets in central Athens.
• February 7: Metropolitan Hieronymus of Thebes is elected Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
• February 7: Alekos Alavanos, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), bid farewell to Greek politics and called for his party to fight the dominance of PASOK and New Democracy.

Deaths

January

• January 6: Alekos Michailidis, Cypriot politician
• January 28: Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece