Maximos Mansion

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis greeted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he arrives at the Maximos Mansion in Athens for talks with the Greek leader.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will be arriving in Athens on Thursday in the context of the 5th Greece-Turkey High Level Cooperation Council, will first meet Greek counterpart Katerina Sakellaropoulou at 11.30 a.m. at the Presidential Mansion.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrives in Athens on Thursday, will sit at the table in the Maximos Mansion with open cards for talks that will to a significant extent decide the pace of the new contacts for 2024 as well. 

The further strengthening of the ties between Athens and Nicosia, and the coordination of their steps in a number of policy areas, was underscored on Friday during a plenary session of the 1st Intergovernmental Session between Greece and Cyprus at the Maximos Mansion.

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.

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.

The Greek cabinet will meet at 11.00 a.m. on Friday at Maximos Mansion and will be chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. 

Ministers will present bills and measures related to their portfolio, while the Climate Crisis minister will brief the cabinet on the forest fires and measures for those affected.

PM Mitsotakis will visit Rhodes on Friday afternoon. [AMNA]

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Thursday. Meloni is visiting the Greek capital to discuss the stability pact and migration. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP]

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.

A discussion on the destructive wildfires will take place in Parliament next Thursday and at the ministerial cabinet the following Friday.

On Friday Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will visit the Greek island of Rhodes, which was heavily affected by the wildfires this summer.