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The mass migration of Greek businesses and freelance workers continues unabated as they escape the overtaxation and huge social security contributions at home.

Cyprus is due to end its energy isolation after it agreed with fellow EU member Greece to press on with an undersea electricity cable, which will also link the island to Israel in the hope of tapping into significant gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean.

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reiterated on Tuesday that his country will not acquiesce to a Cyprus settlement that would include Turkish rights of intervention.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades held a telephone conversation ahead of the former's meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, reports say.

The Cyprus issue and Greece's role in the Eastern Mediterranean region are expected to be on the agenda when the two men meet at the White House at 7 p.m.

BELGRADE - President Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday he was not expecting the EU to react to a letter Serbia planned to send to Brussels over its position that the Catalan referendum was illegal as Spain is an EU member.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Greece are cooperating with great values and objectives in mind - security, stability and international legitimacy, in particular in our region, and those are the foundations of our cooperation, Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos said in a speech in the Serbian parliament.

Greek defense officials on Wednesday attributed a spike in Turkish violations of Greek air space over the past two days to a Greek military exercise in the Aegean.

Varna, a city strongly connected with Greece, and more specifically the palace of Euxinograd, hosted the 1st Quadrilateral Summit Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia.

Tsar’s Ferdinand summer palace was where the Bulgarian premier, Boiko Borissov welcomed the Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras and the Romanian PM Mihai Tudose.

Aleksandar Vucic says that the suffering of Serbia has been tripled because of the double standards employed by "those whose part our country wants to become."

VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern says he is not satisfied with the pace of Serbia's EU accession process and that the matter has long been neglected by Brussels.

"Serbia is a part of Europe and a natural partner of the EU," he told Tanjug in an interview.

Tanjug file photo, Z. Mirkovic