It should be made clear internationally that the 2019 Turkey-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on the Delimitation of Maritime Jurisdiction Areas in the Mediterranean is illegal.
In this fluid political terrain, it is important for Greece to maintain clear judgment and calm and make strategic choices, monitoring changes without compromising its values.
The Draghi-Mitsotakis meeting was important because the Italian PM and former ECB president has a prominent position in the architecture of the EU.
it is the duty of the entire political leadership of the country to back a united policy in fending off Turkish provocations and revisionism steadfastly.
The characteristics of the current phase in Greek-Turkish relations is hardly unfamiliar to Greece, as it is part of a diachronic blame game.
Ankara is maintaining tensions, fully confirming what Greece has told the EU and the US regarding Turkey’s violations and its revisionist geopolitical posture.
Sergey Lavrov's message to the international community was that Russia will not tolerate an eastern expansion of NATO or the deployment of nuclear weapons near its borders, and that it will not be told how to defend its security.
Greece must be exceedingly careful. It must not sever lines of communication and should play an important role in the effort to establish peace and stability.
A generalised conflagration in Ukraine, as political analysts have underlined, would have disastrous implications. It would impact not only on energy flows, but also on the export of food to Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
The approach of kicking the can down the road has apparently been exhausted. It may also be time for political parties to come together, discuss the issues in-depth, and thresh out a single national line toward Turkey.
Greece can and should play a stabilising role in the current crisis, as a Western country with a multi-faceted outlook in its foreign policy. A military clash in the heart of Europe is inconceivable and the territorial precarity of Ukraine is unjustifiable.
Greece must now ask itself, under new conditions, what made it strong after the 1974 post-junta regime change, and what can make it even stronger today. In any event, it is not the relationship with the US, as important as it may be.
What happens in the immediate future is of exceptional importance in the development of the Ukrainian crisis, as every party is weighing its moves and is gauging how much room there is to avert a prospective major energy crisis.
To justify his military intervention on many fronts Erdogan says that he is is guided by the Ottoman past, but he is in fact reviving the catastrophic, expansionist Nazi theory of lebensraum.
Recently Turkey’s interlocutors and allies have sent Ankara strongly critical signals such as having top officials visiting the region without going to Turkey.
The international community must realise that the situation has reached its limits and that it must make it clear that enough is enough.
A national consensus means that the government will avoid startling the opposition with its moves and for that reason the opposition will support the government.
Due to the critical nature of current circumstances both within the government and on the political scene more generally composure is exceptionally necessary.
Geopolitical constants have been lost, developments are being shaped elsewhere, and Greece for the time being cannot have the impact that it deserves and would want to have.
Our country must be present with the diplomatic vigour that its geopolitical place demands and with a clear conception of its size and role.
Greece can lead the effort to bring along its Balkan partners on an outward-looking path of self-confidence.
Instead of constantly rushing to answer all of Erdogan’s provocations and threats, it is more effective to create the necessary conditions and strengthen the necessary alliances to confront them on our own.
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