(Update of previous post: “Nominee for US Ambassador to Greece attends confirmation hearing”)

On 9^th July, Donald Trump’s nominee for the post of US Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, joined other ambassadorial candidates at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Described by Trump as a “close friend and ally” Ms Guilfoyle was another of his appointees who broke the conventional mould. Her predecessor George Tsunis, appointed by Jo Biden, was also not a career politician, but he was a wealthy Greek-American businessman with strong roots in Greece, his parents having migrated to the US from a mountain village in Nafpaktia.