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EU mini Migration Summit: They came, saw and left without agreement

June 25, 2018 Greece, Politics 2

Sixteen leaders out of the EU 28 rushed to Brussels on Sunday afternoon, following an invitation by the European Commission spoken on behalf of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Aim of the emergency mini summit that turned into a medium size summit was to seek ways for common solution on Migration. …

Mini EU Summit on Migration as rift with hardline governments grows

June 20, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Mini EU Summit on Migration as rift with hardline governments grows

European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced an informal mini summit on migration and asylum issues. The meeting is scheduled for Sunday, June 24th, in Brussels. In a tweet Juncker announced the informal summit, however without revealing who is to participate. Howver, he tagged the prime ministers of Greece, Italy, Bulgaria …

Greece, Cyprus, Israel leaders hail East Med pipeline, geo-strategic cooperation

May 8, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on 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 …

Chancellor Angela Merkel complains to Tsipras’ wife about Alexis

March 27, 2017 Greece, Politics 3

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met the wife of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the dinner of the 27 European Union leaders in Rome on Saturday. According to daily to Ethnos, it was the first time Betty Batziana was introduced to the German Chancellor. “Merkel was more than effusive with …

From Kohl’s Two-Speed to Merkel’s Multi-Speed Europe

March 7, 2017 Politics, World 2

A few Europeans leaders have called for a “multi-speed Europe” at a mini-summit at the Palace of Versailles on Monday. present at the summit were host Francois Hollande, the French president, Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. The four came together …

EU-Turkey deal? We’ll think of some way… After all, tomorrow is another day

March 16, 2016 Politics 3

After all this fancy stuff – Angelina Jolie, Government Crisis – in the last few hours, I am supposed to write a post about the perspectives of European Union leaders and national interests to strike a deal with Turkey at the European Council Summit tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. The official …

Angry at creditors: “Greece can’t make more concessions”; several ministers speak of “snap elections”

June 2, 2015 Economy 12

Creditors did not manage to agree on a joint position towards Greece at an emergency meeting Monday night in Berlin. Officially, all they decided about was that “work had to speed up”. No statement was released. But the Greek government is angry as it was waiting for a political decision …

UPD v. Rompuy: EU Summit One Week Later, Oct 23

October 10, 2011 Economy Comments Off on UPD v. Rompuy: EU Summit One Week Later, Oct 23

UPDATE: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had a telephone conversation with Herman van Rompuy and the two men agreed to meet as soon as possible, most likeley this week in Brussels. After a round of consultations last week and over the weekend, inter alia with the Presidents of the Commission …

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