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At sidelines of UNGA, Mitsotakis talks up Greece’s prospects as energy, tech hub
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis met with leaders from Azerbaijan, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Yemen, Syria, and the United Arab... welcoming the recent Armenia-Azerbaijan agreement as a step toward regional peace. Energy also dominated... Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil. In talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Mitsotakis emphasized
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Athens expands survey area off Crete, signs MoU with Egypt
PoliticsForeign PolicyExclusive Economic Zone. In 2019, before signing its memorandum with Turkey, Libya reacted against...). This was calculated by moving its median line northwards. After the signing of the Turkey-Libya memorandum in 2019, new data was generated and Libya could argue that the entire area south of Crete
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Greece's key pledges and requests at the Eurogroup meetings
PoliticsGreek Politicsagreement that during this period the Greek state will be funded under a minimalist menu that solves
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorawhere an obstacle course of determined interest groups, non-cooperative civil servants, serpentine
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Athens sticks by effort to build bridges with FYROM
PoliticsForeign Policy(Monastiri). Greece also values the fact that 3 million people from FYROM visited Greece
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Athens pleased with Washington talks despite lack of definitive US position on Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyactions in the East Med and Libya. The Greek government has many times since Tuesday tried to play down... replied: “when you're talking about Libya, we're discussing with President Erdogan, we're discussing... talked about that subject specifically — Libya and what's going on. We'll be talking to Russia
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Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
PoliticsForeign Policyas Chevron’s decision to submit a proposal for two blocks south of Crete despite the Turkey-Libya... spatial planning (MSF) last April, but since then is trying to leverage its footprint in Libya... the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Belgacem Haftar, the son of Khalifa Haftar and director of Libya’s
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Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis and Aguila Saleh, president of Libya’s Benghazi-based House of Representatives. The meeting formed part of Athens’ regular contacts with representatives of Libya’s de facto government... of Exclusive Economic Zones among Greece, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. During the meeting, Gerapetritis
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Covid-19 stretches health system again, putting reopening of shops in doubt
PoliticsGreek Politicsprison in Volos to a maximum-security facility in Domokos. Koufodinas argues that, by law, if he is to be transferred away from Volos, he should be sent back to his former prison, Korydallos in western... to be moved to the jail in Volos. The conservative administration passed legislation last year governing
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Clash over institutional interference primes political mood ahead of local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof this weekend’s elections. An incident involving Volos Mayor Achilleas Beos over the weekend only... to publicly withdraw any support for the Volos mayor in the upcoming local elections. However, New Democracy... in Volos. Kasselakis had been highly critical of Beos in the wake of the flooding that afflicted
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