The urgency of the issue became strikingly clear in the autumn of 2024, when nearly 500 dusky groupers, brown meagres, and other large fish washed ashore dead along Crete and southern Greece.

Last year, the Greek government took the stage as a self-declared guardian of the seas. These grand declarations now float like driftwood in shallow waters

Greece has officially ratified the international High Seas Treaty aimed at protecting the world's oceans.

Trump’s deep-sea mining order targets China’s mineral advantage, sparking backlash over unethical environmental practices. 

The President of European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Oliver Röpke told To Vima "The ocean is a complex and interconnected system, which needs knowledge-based policy. This is why the EESC has called for an involvement of different disciplines and expertise, like data, sciences, psychology, sociology, economy in the development of the policy".