Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Tasos Hadjivassiliou clashed with former Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu over Cyprus during an Economist Impact conference in Lagonisi, near Athens. Source link
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said that NATO allies must lift defense-industry restrictions among them, pressing the case for Ankara to break into some Europe-only initiatives. Source link
Four water-bombing aircraft were deployed Wednesday to fight a wildfire in central Greece as much of the country was declared at a high risk of wildfire, authorities said. Source link
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday it has appealed an Athens court’s acquittal of one defendant in a large case of EU farm subsidy fraud linked with the now-defunct state OPEKEPE agency. Source link
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will discuss the possible sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, a sale likely to anger Israeli officials. Source link
Plastic pollution continues to pose a major threat to Greece’s coastline, though new monitoring data from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) show early signs of improvement in some categories of waste, including significant reductions in certain single-use plastics. Source link
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday stressed the importance of good-neighborly relations and mutual respect among NATO allies when asked about the possibility of the United States approving the sale of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to Turkey. He said outstanding disputes within the alliance must be resolved through dialogue and cooperation. Source …
Five NATO members are projected to meet the alliance’s goal of spending 3.5% of gross domestic product on core defense already in 2026, according to updated NATO data published on Tuesday ahead of a leaders’ summit in Ankara, which also showed some members are still expected to spend only about 2%. Source link
NATO leaders unveiled arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Turkey on Tuesday, driving home the message that they are heeding US calls to spend more to defend Europe even as President Donald Trump said he felt let down and renewed his push to control Greenland. Source link
Announcements made by US President Donald Trump in Ankara on Tuesday regarding the possibility of Turkey’s return to the F-35 program are the product of lengthy, slow-moving processes that have been underway since the first weeks of his return to the White House. Arriving at the NATO summit, Trump said on Tuesday he would lift …