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Greece’s FM outlines basic principles for relations with Turkey

November 8, 2023 FEATURED, Greece, Politics Comments Off on Greece’s FM outlines basic principles for relations with Turkey

There are six basic principles concerning rapprochement with Turkey, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Tuesday, addressing a conference in Athens. First, he said, geography has placed the two countries in close proximity, which is something that “we cannot change, so we ought to handle it,” therefore “we should …

Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting: window of opportunity for Greek-Turkish relations

July 10, 2023 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting: window of opportunity for Greek-Turkish relations

The upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the newly elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, July 12 – on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania – offers the prospect of restarting Greece-Turkey relations. According to government sources, “the positive momentum that has developed …

Turkey threatens with retaliations if EU imposes further sanctions

July 7, 2020 Politics, Turkey-GR 3

Turkey has threatened it will retaliate if the European Union imposes sanctions on the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, during a joint press conference with Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice of the Commission. “We’ll have to …

SYRIZA at odds with coalition partner Kammenos over unilateral steps in foreign policy

October 14, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on SYRIZA at odds with coalition partner Kammenos over unilateral steps in foreign policy

Without mentioning the name of his junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos, Prime Minister Alexisi Tsipras sent a clear message to Defense Minister saying that there is no alternative plan to the Prespes Agreement with FYROMand that those who are not in charge should not….. Speaking at the convention of SYRIZA …

Greek FM Kotzias dismiss FT allegations of “supposed relations with A. Dugin”

January 29, 2015 Politics Comments Off on Greek FM Kotzias dismiss FT allegations of “supposed relations with A. Dugin”

Greek Foreign Ministry issued a statement dismissing as “groundless’” allegations published in Financial Times on Wednesday, claiming that Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias had “supposed relations” with Russian professor Alexandr Dugin. Greek Foreign Ministry press release Thursday, 29 January 2015 In a Financial Times article published on 28 January, reference is …

MP Kourakis’ “Church-Tax” proposal sparks new dispute between ND-SYRIZA

January 28, 2013 Politics 2

Left-wing SYRIZA lawmaker Tasos Kourakis made a ‘revolutionary proposal’: that clerics’ wages should be funded not by the state but by those who declare themselves to be Christian orthodox and thus through a special tax similar in other European countries like Germany. The funding scheme was proposed by Kourakis in …

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