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Greece and Turkey reiterated their joint commitment to build on the existing positive atmosphere during a meeting between Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou and her Turkish counterpart Burak Akcapar on Monday in Ankara, as part of the political dialogue between the two countries' foreign ministries.

The government has made significant effort to address farmers' demands, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting with union representatives from the central Thessaly region on Monday, characterizing many of these demands as "fair."

The prospect of obtaining a battery of surface-to-air Patriot missiles from the United States allows Greece to reconsider lifting its objections to providing Ukraine with the idling Soviet-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles now based on the island of Crete.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented flood protection proposals from Dutch experts for Greece's central Thessaly plain to local officials, while playing down concerns about the possible abandonment of cotton farming.

The Tempe train crash will remain at the top of the political agenda for another week, as political parties submit their - divergent - findings to the parliamentary investigative committee, effectively agreeing that they disagree.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet representatives of Greek farmers on Monday in an effort to resolve long-standing problems of the agricultural sector that have been aggravated by the rising cost of production.

The group of 15 farmers include Rizos Maroudas, president of the Federation of Agricultural Associations of Larissa, who had led the recent mass protests.

The third Upfront Initiative forum, themed "Visibility in Practice," is taking place this Thursday at the Athens Conservatoire (Rigillis & 17-19 Vassileos Georgiou B), under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic.

On Wednesday a Russian missile struck a few hundred meters from where Greece's Prime Minister Mitsotakis was meeting with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy. Ambassador Spiros Lambridis, Greece's special envoy for Ukraine, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss this incident, the significance of Prime Minister Mitsotakis' recent visit to Ukraine, and look into Greece's overall efforts to support Kyiv.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday defended a bill allowing, under certain conditions, the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece for the first time, saying that reforms would have a positive knock-on effect on their public counterparts. Lawmakers are set to vote on the bill later in the day.

Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.