Libyan ratification of Turkey pact intensifies foreign policy debate

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: EastMed, ELAS, Libya, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, Samaras, Turkey

The government has moved to contain the political fallout from the decision of Libya’s eastern‑based House of Representatives to approve the 2019 Turkey–Libya maritime memorandum. Opposition parties across the spectrum, and former PM Antonis Samaras, have seized on it as evidence that Greece’s Libya strategy has failed.

The approval reported on Tuesday reverses the eastern parliament’s 2020 decision to boycott the agreement signed by the rival Tripoli‑based GNU administration. That decision had been one of the few points of convergence between Athens and the eastern Li...

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