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On Thursday European leaders will look to overcome growing resistance to further aid for Ukraine, with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowing to defy EU pressure to approve a four-year €50 billion aid package to the war torn country. EU support is seen as crucial to Ukraine's war effort.

“I’m not going anywhere”, Mitsotakis said about the scenarios that want him to take European office

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Greece this weekend, and he and Prime Minister Mitsotakis once again highlighted how Greece-US relations are at their best, with both countries standing together in the face of some of the most acute challenges in the region. 

All eyes were on Athens on Thursday as Prime Minister Mitsotakis met with Turkey's President Erdogan, with the two leaders reiterating their commitment to "calm waters" in the Aegean.

Dimitris Kairidis, the Greek minister for migration, said late Tuesday that the number of migrants arriving on Greece's islands illegally had dropped by about 60% over the past two months thanks in large part to better coordination with Turkey's coast guard.

This weekend at COP28 Prime Minister Mitsotakis stated that despite the "climate devastation" experienced this year "a new Greece is emerging" that will see renewables, where Greece had "one of the best performances of any European country," take center stage.

A new indecency by the British PM Sunak followed after the first diplomatic incident: He proposed a meeting with the British Deputy Prime Minister & PM Mitsotakis denied

On Tuesday Prime Minister Mitsotakis highlighted to German Chanellor Olaf Scholz that Greece has the fastest rate of debt reduction in the world. From around 206% of GDP in 2020, Greek debt is expected to decline this year to around 160% of GDP, and this downward trajectory is expected to continue throughout the decade.

Socialist opposition party PASOK said many of the measures announced by the prime minister on Wednesday to curb hooligan-related violence in Greece are "already foreseen" in the reform package agreed on after the killing of a soccer fan by hooligans in February 2022.

The wildfires raging on the islands of Rhodes, Evia, Corfu and several locations in mainland Greece caused the first human casualties Tuesday.

Two Greek Air Force pilots died on the island of Evia when a Canadair CL-215 firefighting plane crashed near the town of Karystos shortly after 2 p.m., an Air Force spokesman announced.