'We are talking about an industrial cooperation and joint exercises at sea and on land. We would also like other bordering countries to be involved,' Macron said.
Erdogan declared that if Greece does not concern itself with Turkey it has nothing to fear from Ankara, meaning that Athens should disregard its sovereign rights and ignore the illegal Libya-Turkey accord delimiting their putative EEZs.
One does not have a serious institutional opposition that can persuade voters that it has solutions for the country’s problems.
Turkey’s demands are now far more expansive and go far beyond the Aegean region to include the broader region of the Southeastern Mediterranean and Cyprus’s EEZ.
Mitsotakis accused Erdogan of using migrants and refugees as leverage to implement his geopolitical designs, as Ankara is threatening to unleash a new wave of refugees and migrants to Europe.
On the day of Justice Sakellaropoulou’s election to the highest public office in the land the prime minister must have felt vindicated by the very positive reactions
There is a common conviction that many problems would have been transcended if there was even a basic cooperation between political parties.
The election of a woman was considered symbolic so that a male-dominated Greece could follow contemporary trends toward greater participation of women in public office and public affairs.
A distinguished jurist, Sakellaropoulou has the profile of a moderate progressive and thus is in line with the tradition of the PM picking a president from the other side of the aisle.
While Trump was mocked in some international press outlets when he said he feels he personally knows all three million Greek-Americans – there are something under 1.5 million, with many wealthy supporters and major donors to his campaign
In contrast with the State Department Trump avoided any criticism of Turkey for its intervention in Libya or on the Libya-Turkey EEZ accord that expropriates large swathes of Greece’s EEZ.
Mitsotakis’ key argument in seeking clear and public US support for Athens (including the area of defence) is that Greece is the sole anchor of stability in a volatile region.
'This is really a very important and historic day and the discussions we will have with the Prime Minister of Israel, I believe will lay the foundation for an even stronger, cooperation with the countries of the Middle East,' Anastasiades said.
“We want to be part of a solution in Libya because it concerns us as well. We are geographically closer than Turkey and if there were another government in Libya we could discuss delimiting the EEZ," the PM said.
Almost immediately the PM implemented a plan whIich was based on creating the conditions to restart the economy by attracting foreign investment.
If various forms of police violence continue and are not checked, they will delegitimise the entire effort.
Since winning the elections he has systematically and in an organised manner highlighted the different angles of his overall policy without resistance or serious disputes.
In his speech the PM underlined government’s three top priorities: 'I will cut taxes, create many well-paid jobs, and restore the sense of security. That is exactly what I am doing.'
After weeks of laying the groundwork with a diplomatic blitz the government secured the support of even skeptical allies such as Germany.
The PM by avoiding promises of handouts freed his government from the usual electoral pledges and offered it reserves of tolerance and trust.