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Mitsotakis in Paris for summit on Ukraine, dinner with Macron and Bastille Day parade as Greece stays outside new missile shield
Athens is part of the political coalition supporting Kyiv - France will let Ukraine manufacture French-designed missile interceptors and deliver 16 Rafale jets by 2028, while Britain joins a 90 billion euro EU defence fund and a multinational force stands ready for any post-ceasefire deployment
Mitsotakis in Paris for 37-nation Ukraine support summit, Zelensky also present
The main topics of discussion are strengthening military support for Ukraine, increasing pressure on Moscow through a new package of European sanctions, and preparing the security framework that would accompany a future peace process
Wave of resignations rocks SYRIZA: Deputy Secretary Anastasia Sapouna & six other senior officials step down
Earlier in the day, Simeon Kedikoglou had already resigned, announcing that he would align himself with Alexis Tsipras. Present at the meeting were Rena Dourou, Nikos Pappas, and Pavlos Polakis
EU Parliament ram through “Chat Control” extension with undemocratic procedural trick
Οpponents warn that the infrastructure for automated scanning of private communications creates a dangerous precedent that could later expand to other categories of content, such as political speech or “disinformation”
Contracts signed for the Skaramangas Triple Interchange – Mitsotakis: “We are correcting problems that have persisted for decades”
The project, awarded to the METKA–Domiki Kritis consortium, will improve connections between Piraeus, Western Attica, and the Thriasio logistics hub
Greece opens a summer of new highways, a Thessaloniki metro line and a major Athens interchange
Infrastructure Minister Christos Dimas signs the €60 million Skaramanga interchange contract today, kicking off a summer of deliveries that includes the E65 motorway, Crete's first BOAK stretch and the Kalamaria metro extension by month's end
Mitsotakis: justice served for Marfin bank arson victims, cooperation with Turkey incompatible with casus belli threat
In his weekly review, Mitsotakis detailed the Marfin arson arrests, Turkey's casus belli stance at the NATO summit, a new fuel discount scheme, Greece's DSRB membership, judicial reforms and record foreign investment figures for 2025
Cyprus condemns the illegal memorandum of understanding between Turkey and the occupied territories regarding the construction of a natural gas pipeline
The statement notes, among other things, that this “memorandum” is yet another manifestation of Turkey’s revisionist policy in the Eastern Mediterranean
“Hagia Sophia: A symbol of the Conquest of Constantinople”: Turkish Culture Minister provokes on six years since its reopening as a mosque
Another anniversary of the “historic day” has arrived, when Hagia Sophia was reopened for worship with the signature of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy wrote, among other things, in a social media post
