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Rich Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies with a deep expertise in sanctions policy who previously served on the White House NSC, joins Thanos Davelis to look at why we need to be paying attention to this new flotilla set to depart Turkey for Gaza, which has the potential to spark a diplomatic crisis.

With the EU elections on the horizon, one party in Greece, Greek Solution, is seeing a notable surge in support. The rise of this far right nationalist party also mirrors broader trends in the far right across Europe, and many are beginning to ask whether this resurgent far-right is here to stay.

This past week Washington's attention has been on Cyprus and the humanitarian corridor from Gaza, from President Biden's letter thanking President Christodoulides, to the National Security Council's chief of staff visiting Cyprus. 

Cyprus is also going to be a central theme for diaspora Greeks as celebrations for Greek Independence Day take place. 

This past weekend SYRIZA held a four-day convention that was filled with drama and chaos, with both its identity as well as its leadership being challenged. With a new leadership race narrowly avoided, the question remains if there is a leader in the fragmented center left that can unite the opposition.

Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini's English edition, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the main takeaways from HALC, Kathimerini English Edition, and the Delphi Economic Forum's 5th Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean conference in Washington, DC.

While no major news on the Parthenon Sculptures has emerged since British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's infamous snub of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in late last year, the incident reinvigorated the debate around the return of the Sculptures to their home in Athens.

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.

In a major escalation in the Middle East crisis, three US service members were killed and dozens more injured in a drone strike on the Syrian-Jordanian border by the Iranian-backed Islamic Resistance.

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini's diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis with the latest analysis from Athens as we discuss the Biden administration's Friday decision to formally inform Congress of its intention to proceed with a deal to sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to Greece, while looking at what this means for Greece and US-Greek relations.

Henri Barkey, the Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the vote on Sweden in Turkey's Parliament and look at the lessons US policymakers should walk away with from Erdogan's handling of Sweden's NATO accession.