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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agorain the early hours of the Brussels meeting to praise two bilateral agreements that had been reached between... interior minister – Horst Seehofer – from the junior coalition partner CSU had threatened... not be reached. Such alarmist classifications are nothing new to EU Council meetings in the course
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Athens seeks clarification from UN envoy as Cyprus talks head for dead-end
PoliticsForeign Policythat there is no common ground for the “modalities for a meeting in Geneva,” admitting that his shuttle... serious efforts to overcome their differences regarding the modalities for a meeting in Geneva... shuttle diplomacy for 10 days following the last meeting with the two leaders. He had tried to see how
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Dispute with farmers set to escalate as government offer rejected by holdouts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe dispute between government and farmers shows no sign of de-escalating following a meeting... boycotted the meeting to disperse or face enforcement measures. The government had been raising hopes... of blockades to pull out. At Tuesday’s meeting, which lasted 3.5 hours, Mitsotakis pledged
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Tsipras, Erdogan pledge to keep talking amid tension in Aegean
PoliticsForeign Policyand arrogance.” He repeated this belief during a meeting with academics and representatives of political parties last Wednesday following a National Council (ESEP) meeting, which focused on energy projects. Monday’s developments, however, took place just a few days after the meeting between Prime Minister
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FM heads to Ankara for rare talks as Greece and Turkey court Libya
PoliticsForeign Policyin Athens. During this meeting, it became clear to the Greek side that Tripoli is seeking to restore... of the two foreign ministers’ meeting will mainly focus on bilateral issues. Turkey is expected to raise... the Cyprus issue, particularly with an eye on the informal UN meeting that will take place in Geneva from 27
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Athens reaches out to Moscow while keeping eye on Ankara
PoliticsForeign Policythe crucial situation surrounding Ukraine after a meeting between their top diplomats last week... to Turkey. Earlier, a press release issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the meeting between the two... platforms.” However, the meeting of the two ministers went beyond issues on which the two countries
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Syria developments dominate as Athens steps up diplomatic exchanges
PoliticsForeign Policyand Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides. The meeting between Mitsotakis and Christodoulides took...The dramatic situation in Syria will be one of the issues that will top the agenda for the meeting... in the wider region. Turkey Diplomatic sources don’t exclude a short meeting on the sidelines of NATO’s
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign Policy” a meeting. The Greek FM did not want to meet his Libyan counterpart since she had signed the recent... without meeting Menfi. The Greek government aircraft had also waited for almost an hour before... if the Tripoli government had indeed tried to “trap” the Greek FM into a meeting that he did not want to make
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Key Greek election date firms up; turnout could prove crucial
PoliticsGreek Politicsone group. Speaking at a meeting of the party’s central committee on Saturday, SYRIZA leader Alexis... of voting in the local polls but Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis confirmed over the weekend
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMouzalas went into an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers on Monday on the back
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