Mitsotakis

A SYRIZA no-confidence motion would rally behind the PM all of the MPs of New Democracy, certain factions of which privately have expressed intense consternation over the affair.

He spoke, via video message, during a summit of heads of states and governments for the Crimea Platform Summit, and in addressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A request for surveillance must now be submitted to an appellate court prosecutor within 24 hours and approval takes effect immediately after the order is signed..

Though there is no distinction under international law, some analysts believe that a Turkish encroachment on certain areas of Cyprus' EEZ would constitute a more limited escalation.

Erdogan and top Turkish officials unleash attacks against the Greek PM and Greece quite regularly, especially over Ankara’s persistent demand that Greece demilitarise its Eastern Aegean islands.

The PM is convinced that despite the many uncertainties that arise from the war in Ukraine, at some point it will end, and that the normalisation of economic conditions will be almost automatic.

With Greek households battered by skyrocketing energy costs and galloping inflation on basic goods, Mitsotakis underlined that this is a global phenomenon, and that energy prices have quintupled in one year.

'Mitsotakis humiliated himself. He begged them in his speech to Congress not to give us the fighter jets, in a spirit that does not befit an allied country,'the Turkish foreign minister said.

Greek PM spoke to an audience at the annual general assembly of the Hellenic Federation of Business (SEV)

The PM wants to assess how things will go during the summer due to pressures from wildfires, whether tourism will temper the impact of the war in Ukraine, and the course of Greek-Turkish tensions.

'Greece is maintaining its composure. At the same time, it is absolutely prepared, at any moment, to defend its sovereignty and sovereign rights,' said Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

' I am not the one who will say we are not talking, but we shall defend Greek positions with the absolute certitude that we have [international] law on our side,' Mitsotakis said.

“We have no reason to open a dialogue with the illegal and the unhistorical”

'We encourage our NATO Allies, including Greece and Turkey, to work together to maintain peace and security in the region and resolve differences diplomatically.'

Kyriakos Mitsotakis used the most appropriate and ultimately effective way for the audience to address all the burning national issues – Referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he noted that “we naively ignored the warning signs and the Russian acts with the annexation of Crimea “

The last thing NATO needs is another source of tension between Greece and Turkey

They analysed the developments in EPP ahead of the Congress that will be held in Rotterdam on May 31

'I made it clear that this behaviour by a NATO member-state is simply unacceptable, the Greek PM said today of his telephone contact with NATO’s Secretary General.

The Greek Prime Minister and the Greek party leaders congratulated and commented Emmanuel Macron’s re-election on Sunday

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis distanced himself from past declarations that he will not settle for anything less than ND single-party rule and left open the prospect of a coalition government.