European Council

Mitsotakis to meet Scholz in Berlin on Tuesday

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet on Tuesday with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, German deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann announced on Friday. 

According to Hoffmann, the agenda of the meeting includes bilateral and European policy issues and issues related to security policy. The talks will be followed by a joint press conference. 

PM Mitsotakis meets with SYRIZA leader Kasselakis in first encounter

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday met with SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis, marking their first encounter since Kasselakis assumed leadership of the leftist opposition party.

The meeting, which lasted approximately one hour, took place at the prime minister's parliamentary office.

‘Calling Palestinians terrorists has to stop’

It was June 29, 1982 and Andreas Papandreou had just returned from a fraught European Economic Community summit. The Greek prime minister gave his family a detailed account of what was said during the talks with his European counterparts with regard to the war that was raging in the Middle East at the time.

Vučić: Kurti performed a trick yesterday; He knew that Serbia could not sign it

He referred to the meetings in Brussels and said that the Prime Minister of Pristina institutions, Albin Kurti, performed a trick, which he believes will not happen again.
"It is a kind of quadrature of a circle, a vicious circle from which it will not be easy to get out," said Vui at the beginning.

Greece-Egypt power link on EU’s list

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) has announced that it has been proposed that the power interconnector planned by Greece and Egypt, dubbed GREGY, be included in the European Union's list of Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI).

The list is expected to be endorsed by the European Parliament and the European Council within the next two months.

EC calls for de-escalation efforts by Belgrade, Pristina, implementation of agreements

BRUSSELS - In conclusions adopted at a Brussels summit on Friday, the European Council said Belgrade and Pristina must "pursue sustained de-escalation efforts, as well as ensure the holding of new elections in the north of Kosovo as soon as possible, with the active participation of Kosovo Serbs," and added that failure to de-escalate tensions would have consequences.

Vucic continues Brussels meeting with Borrell, Lajcak

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday continued a Brussels meeting with EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell and the EU's special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak after the first part of the meeting with European officials concluded shortly after 3 pm.

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