The South East European Cooperation Process summit in Thessaloniki is an opportunity to “signal the great importance we attach to the Western Balkan countries and to restart the effort to anchor them in the safe harbor of Europe,” the prime minister said on Friday.
The United States has welcomed Greece’s announcement that it will host the ninth Our Ocean Conference in 2024.
The hosting of this year’s annual Summit of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) in the northern port city of Thessaloniki bolsters Greece’s international image as a factor of stability in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean regions.
The arrest in Thessaloniki on Thursday of four people is linked to the seizure last month by Italian authorities in Calabria of 654 kilos of cocaine onboard a ship bound for northern port city.
Lightning storms in Albania flooded cities, caused power outages in the capital and led to the death of at least person Thursday, authorities said.
The next elections in Greece will “take place in due time, at the end of the four-year term,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday, warning that “Greece does not have any room to be swept away in a climate of inflationary requests and costless promises.”
About 300 students opposed to the establishment and deployment of university police blocked the entrance to the Zografou campus of the University of Athens on Friday morning.
Greek-Israeli economic cooperation was given new impetus in Tel Aviv on Thursday with the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between Enterprise Greece and the corresponding Israeli agency.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras traveled to Paris on Thursday to participate in the two-day proceedings of the ministerial meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Over 40 marine fuel suppliers from around the world have gathered at this year’s Posidonia during what is a critical juncture for the $300 billion bunkering market due to the double whammy of the geopolitical crisis and the uncertainty surrounding the regulatory framework pertaining to the decarbonization of the shipping industry.