The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, on Tuesday declined to make a comment on controversial remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that he no longer recognizes the Greek prime minister and will refuse to meet him at a planned summit.
The last 50 years had not prepared the Greek foreign policy establishment to deal with the turn that Greek-Turkish relations have taken in the past five years; it is not trained for this level of challenges
Greek health authorities are awaiting recommendations from European authorities regarding the strategy to follow regarding the use of vaccines against smallpox, which seem to provide some protection against monkeypox.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has responded to the controversial remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, saying that Greece will not be lured into an escalation of tensions with its Aegean neighbor.
Allowing Sweden and Finland into NATO would be tantamount to Turkey condoning terrorism and it should consider leaving the Alliance if necessary, the leader of the country’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has said.
“Gazprom closed the gas valve on the Soyuz main gas pipeline in Russia,” the CEO of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko points out in an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, openly laying the blame on the Russian side for any interruption in the flow of natural gas from Ukraine.
The Interior Ministry and the Athens Municipal Authority on Tuesday announced an agreement that seeks to elevate the role of the Municipal Police force.
Turkey on Monday resumed its practice of allowing boats packed with migrants to depart from its coast for the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean. There was also a large number of airspace violations by UAVs and naval cooperation aircraft.
A telephone call threatening that a bomb was about to go off at a school in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, turned out to be a hoax, the police said on Tuesday.
Greece will be able to acquire the advanced F-35 aircraft starting in 2029, since outlays for other defense procurements leave no space in the country’s budget.