Politics
EU foreign ministers meet Western Balkan counterparts in Brussels as Greece intensifies efforts to speed up the accession process, while unresolved tensions with Albania over maritime zones remain on the table
Bloomberg reports Turkey is preparing legislation to formally codify its maritime claims in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, raising regional tensions
New Democracy, Greece's governing party, will hold a pre-congress session in Thessaloniki on Saturday, with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and senior ministers set to speak ahead of the party's 16th congress next weekend (15-17/05).
Foreign Minister Gerapetritis told parliament Friday that Athens is working to secure the release of two Greeks detained during Easter over unveiling a Greek flag and a message reading "Orthodoxy or Death" inside Hagia Sophia.
The Greek Foreign Minister told Parliament that the country acted in line with international maritime law and carried out a humanitarian evacuation during a multinational maritime incident involving detained civilians
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis is expected to address Greece’s handling of the Global Sumud Flotilla incident and provide updates on two Greek citizens still detained in Istanbul
Dendias said the two sides had discussed unmanned surface vessels, unmanned underwater vehicles, unmanned aerial systems.
According to the poll, some 71.3 percent of respondents said the European Prosecutor's Office was conducting its work without bias.
