Strategic ties with US, increased role in Balkans, East Med

With the steady steps taken by successive governments in recent years, Greece is gradually assuming the geostrategic role that it is entitled to in the wider region.

The strengthening of bilateral ties with the United States is a fundamental parameter of this development. It is a welcome fact that this policy is being pursued by a leftist-led government. The blind, harmful anti-Americanism of the past is unlikely to resurface.

Cooperation between Athens and Washington seems to be taking on a genuinely strategic dimension, flourishing in tandem with trilateral schemes between Greece, Cyprus and Israel on the one hand, and Greece, Cyprus and Egypt, on the other.

On Thursday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will visit Israel for another tripartite meeting with the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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