Giorgia Meloni

Previously, European officials spoke with the Prime Minister of Pristina's temporary institutions, Aljbin Kurti, who left immediately after the meeting, without giving statements to journalists.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he had discussed the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and many other topics during numerous encounters and bilateral meetings with European leaders on the sidelines of Thursday's European Political Community summit in Granada.

GRANADA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in Grenada on Thursday.

The deepening and expansion of already robust Greek-Italian relations, especially in the realms of economics and bilateral energy cooperation, took center stage during a working dinner between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Italian counterpart, Georgia Meloni, at the Maximos Mansion Thursday.

More than 450 migrants reached Greece's Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey in less than two days, Greek authorities said Thursday, including 51 people who made landfall on the high-end resort of Mykonos.

The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to better summer sailing conditions.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will pay a working visit to Athens on Thursday.

Meloni will meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for a working dinner and, according to government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, bilateral and regional issues and European agenda issues will be discussed. The dinner is scheduled at 7 p.m.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address Parliament regarding the fires in Greece at 10:30 a.m on Thursday morning, his office said.

In an address before the order of business, the PM will speak of measures to support those affected by the fires and of actions to manage the repercussions of the climate crisis, a government statement said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to meet with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Thursday.

Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis stated the two leaders will discuss bilateral, regional, and European matters with a focus on migration.

Statistics from Italy, Spain, and Greece illustrate the intensifying migratory movement in the past year.

The European Union should allow more legal migration into its borders to stop people trafficking, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Friday, amid a surge in arrivals by sea to his country.

Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia, Italian state RAI television reported, citing four survivors who were rescued and brought to land Wednesday.