Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered full support to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu during a brief visit to Jerusalem on Monday. “We hope that whatever happens, it is done without great humanitarian cost,” the Greek PM advised Bibi. He expressed his horror and sorrow at Hamas’ terrorist attacks against …
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Greece probes Samos crash that killed witness in Netanyahu trial
Authorities in Greece Tuesday opened an investigation into the crash of a private Cessna aircraft from Israel that killed a prosecution witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plane crashed in the sea off the island of Samos on Monday evening, as it was …
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Greece – Israel: “Vaccination passport” and trials in Covid-19 drug
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on a “digital vaccination passport” and as it looks also for the participation of Greece in clinical trials regarding the medicine for Covid-19. Netanyahu had a surprised for his Greek guest and pulled out of his pocket a vial with …
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Tourism and Turkey high on Greek PM’s agenda during visit to Israel
Tourism, bilateral relations and Turkey were high on the agenda of the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu during his first visit abroad after the pandemic lockdown. “Israel will allow flights to Greece, Cyprus on August 1, if the virus stats are good,” Netanyahu …
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Greece, Cyprus, Israel leaders hail East Med pipeline, geo-strategic cooperation
The leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel meet in Nicosia on Tuesday, in the 4th trilateral meeting to discuss regional issues, energy cooperation between the countries and the East Med gas pipeline. President Nikos Amastasiades, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the geo-strategic cooperation. However, despite …
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Trilateral Summit between Greece, Cyprus and Israel starts under draconian security measures
Under draconian security measures, the trilateral summit between Greece, Cyprus and Israel started in Thessaloniki on Thursday morning. High on the agenda are energy and security issues in the region, the situation in the Middle East and the Qatar issue as well as the Cyprus and the Palestinian issues. The …
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PM Tsipras: Greece supports creation of Palestinian State with borders of 1967
“Greece supports the creation of an independent Palestinian State with the borders of 1967 and with East Jerusalem as its capital.” This is is what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Before and after the Six days War in 1967 I don’t know what …
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Turkey seeks advantages from Cyprus crisis: share gas resources
It looks as if someone takes pleasures and seeks to take advantages from the economic crisis that hit Cyprus. Turkey did not miss the chance to reiterate claims in the gas resources of Cyprus after Nicosia hinted to use resources revenues as collateral for international lenders’ financial aid and as …
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Sarkozy to Obama: Papandreou is “crazy” and “depressive”
Oh là là ! President Nicholas Sarkozy allegedly used some ….”French” to describe George Papandreou’s mental state. According to Le Parisien, Sarkozy told US president Barack Obama, that Papandreou is ‘crazy” and ‘depressive”. The secret dialogue between the two presidents took place in a …dark corner of G-20 meeting in …
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Kastellorizo: What’s in the mind of Turkish FM Davutoglu?
That Ankara keeps an eye on the islet of Kastellorizo is not new. But Turkey’s insistence that the tiny island should be left out of the bilateral exploratory talks is something I don’t like at all. Should we see it as an Ankara’s attempt to create a new ‘grey zone’? Not similarly to …
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