Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis stressed the need to strengthen Niger’s economic ties with the European Union, within the framework of the EU-West Africa Economic Cooperation Agreements, for the better integration of the country in the international trading system and to ensure sustainable economic development.
Ibrahim Kalin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman and chief foreign policy adviser, has thanked Greece for providing assistance to Turkey as it struggles to cope with Monday’s devastating earthquake.
Finnish parliamentary groups are expected to discuss on Friday when to ratify NATO’s founding treaties, in a move that could lead the country to proceed with membership ahead of neighboring Sweden, amid growing support among the Finnish public to go it alone.
A former foreign minister who campaigned as a unifier unconstrained by antiquated ideological and party lines will take on a veteran diplomat with broad voter appeal in Sunday’s runoff for the presidency of ethnically divided Cyprus.
A teenager was pulled largely unscathed from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep early Friday, in a dramatic rescue that belied the reality that the chances of finding many more survivors four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed tens of thousands are shrinking fast.
European Union leaders said on Thursday they would tighten their borders to keep away unwanted immigrants, with some seeking more fences and walls while others would rather spend the money on improving living conditions in worse-off parts of the world.
The government aspires to collect an additional 769.2 million euros in grants and €5 billion in loans from the Recovery and Resilience Fund, under REPowerEU, in the near future, by updating the National Recovery and Resilience plans.
The devastating earthquake in southern Turkey has introduced a a new element for Athens in its short-term management of Greek-Turkish relations.
A naval tradition park, which will include the Averoff battleship, the Olympias trireme, the Hellas Liberty merchant ship and the submarine Proteus, is to be created at Flisvos in Palaio Faliro on the southern coast of Athens.
One-and-a-half minutes was enough. That’s how long the earthquake that leveled a large part of southeastern Turkey in the early hours of Monday lasted. The wounds left by the main earthquake and the threat of strong aftershocks for many months to come are undoubtedly creating a new situation.