As households brace for a hard winter, a divided EU summit ended without a real plan, exposing old North-South rifts and deeper questions about Europe

As an EU summit splits over energy costs, Mitsotakis hails a green light for Greece’s fiscal plan and touts heating oil and fuel subsidies at home

Macron warns EU leaders to agree on the 2028-2034 budget soon, as 2027 elections, including France’s, could make a deal much harder

Zelensky warns 20 million Ukrainians could flee if Russia wins, as Denmark, Italy and Poland push EU leaders to harden their migration stance

Kyiv drops a short-lived energy truce and strikes a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region, as Zelensky says Trump’s moves left him feeling betrayed

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz insists the EU must provide even more money to cover Ukraine’s wartime needs

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced from Brussels that the European Commission backs Greece’s plan for an EU emergency mechanism to curb migration pressures, including a temporary asylum suspension.

From Brussels, Mitsotakis set out Greece’s EU summit priorities: protecting cohesion and farm funds in the new budget, a joint EU answer to high energy costs, and a crisis mechanism for migration.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis heads to Brussels seeking more room to support households and businesses, changes to ease energy transition costs and guarantees that EU farm and cohesion funding will not be cut

Deputy FM Tasos Chatzivasileiou at the EU General Affairs Council in Luxembourg, urging an ambitious budget ahead of the October 15–16 summit.

The Commission must balance securing funds to protect consumers with avoiding measures that could limit investment in the energy sector

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias urges the EU to fund its response to threats from the South, citing crises in Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb, at the EU Defense Ministers Council in Brussels.

Dendias highlights Europe’s evolving security challenges, from drones and missiles to cyber threats, while stressing Greece’s role in strengthening European defense

European leaders will meet in Rovaniemi on Sept. 13-14 to discuss the Arctic’s growing geopolitical importance, security, stability and sustainable development

Environment Minister Stavros Papastavrou says Greece backs Cyprus’s full participation in COP preparations, calling any exclusion unacceptable.

As EU leaders convene in Brussels, Greece is positioned to play a pivotal role on the budget, the Middle East, and EU enlargement

EU leaders signaled readiness for future diplomatic engagement with Russia while reaffirming support for Ukraine and tougher sanctions on Moscow.

Greece heads into the Brussels summit pushing for a larger EU budget, stronger cohesion funding, joint European borrowing, and a comprehensive approach to security amid mounting global challenges

The Greek prime minister referred to the issue of a release of EU funds to support Ukraine, in response to a press question

As two wars rage on its doorstep, the EU gathered its 27 leaders in Brussels and emerged with little more than strongly worded statements.