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  • Papastavrou: “The Vertical Corridor Limits Turkey and Russia” — “Permission for the Cable? Absolutely Not”

    Papastavrou: “The Vertical Corridor Limits Turkey and Russia” — “Permission for the Cable? Absolutely Not”

    Greek Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou delivered a twofold geopolitical message, arguing that the Vertical Gas Corridor “upgrades Greece’s role while limiting the role of Turkey and Russia,” while categorically rejecting the notion that Athens needs Ankara’s permission for the Greece–Cyprus–Israel electricity interconnector. “Permission, or anything resembling permission, is out of the question because it is not required. Full stop,” he said. Papastavrou also signaled that implementation of the interconnector is moving into its next phase within the coming weeks and described Greece-US relations as being at a “historic high.”

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    Papastavrou: “The Vertical Corridor Limits Turkey and Russia” — “Permission for the Cable? Absolutely Not”
  • Floros on Turkey and Cable: “We Need Nobody’s Permission—If Vessel Is Harassed,Scenarios Are on the Table”

    Floros on Turkey and the Cable: “We Need Nobody’s Permission — If the Vessel Is Harassed, All Scenarios Are on the Table”

    Former Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff General Konstantinos Floros delivered a clear message over the Greece–Cyprus electricity interconnector and Turkey’s claims in the Eastern Mediterranean: “No one’s permission is required,” he said, arguing that Greece has both diplomatic and operational tools at its disposal to defend its interests. “If the vessel is harassed, all scenarios and all plans exist to support it,” Floros added, while describing Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens as strategically significant.

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    Floros on Turkey and Cable: “We Need Nobody’s Permission—If Vessel Is Harassed,Scenarios Are on the Table”
  • Mitsotakis Draws a Red Line on Turkey: “No SAFE Access Without Conditions” – Athens Presses Brussels

    Mitsotakis Draws a Red Line on Turkey: “No SAFE Access Without Conditions” – Athens Presses Brussels

    Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a dual message following his meeting with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda: third countries seeking access to EU-funded defense programs must fully respect the security interests of every member state, while Brussels should allow “measured European flexibility” so governments can support households and businesses against the energy shock. Athens is also examining additional financial assistance for Greek fishermen.

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    Mitsotakis Draws a Red Line on Turkey: “No SAFE Access Without Conditions” – Athens Presses Brussels
  • Greece’s 2027 Budget Opens the Wallet: €500 Bonus, €1,000 Minimum Wage, Housing and Tax Cuts

    Greece’s 2027 Budget Opens the Wallet: €500 Bonus, €1,000 Minimum Wage, Housing and Tax Cuts

    The Greek government has unveiled an ambitious 2027 budget blueprint combining income support, tax relief and investment incentives: a €500 Christmas bonus for public-sector employees, a path toward a €1,000 minimum wage, a €2 billion “My Home III” housing program, a €400 annual payment for pensioners over 65 and major tax relief for farmers and families with three children. At the same time, Athens projects 2.3% growth, unemployment falling to 7.9% and public debt dropping sharply to 128.8% of GDP.

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    Greece’s 2027 Budget Opens the Wallet: €500 Bonus, €1,000 Minimum Wage, Housing and Tax Cuts
  • Foreign Capital Bets on Greece: €7.6 Billion in Seven Months as Bond Markets Turn Turbulent

    Foreign Capital Bets on Greece: €7.6 Billion in Seven Months as Bond Markets Turn Turbulent

    Foreign direct investment into Greece has surged to €7.6 billion in the first seven months of 2026, nearly doubling from a year earlier, even as a fresh selloff shakes global bond markets. Behind the headline numbers lies a potentially deeper shift: stronger exports and rising productive investment are gradually pushing Greece beyond its traditional consumption-and-tourism growth model.

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    Foreign Capital Bets on Greece: €7.6 Billion in Seven Months as Bond Markets Turn Turbulent
  • Greece’s Debt Exit: Why the €2.5 Billion EFSF Repayment Matters — and the Risk After 2030

    Greece’s Debt Exit: Why the €2.5 Billion EFSF Repayment Matters — and the Risk After 2030

    Greece’s €2.5 billion repayment to the EFSF is another step in the rapid decline of its debt burden. But the bigger story lies ahead: Greece is moving closer to Italy in the EU debt rankings, heading toward the 120% debt-to-GDP threshold and, over the longer term, toward 100%. At the same time, however, the country will gradually move away from the protection of long-maturity European rescue loans and become more dependent on market financing. That is where the real test begins.

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    Greece’s Debt Exit: Why the €2.5 Billion EFSF Repayment Matters — and the Risk After 2030
  • Plevris: Greece Pushes EU Emergency Migration Plan – Return Hubs in Africa Targeted for 2027

    Plevris: Greece Pushes EU Emergency Migration Plan – Return Hubs in Africa Targeted for 2027

    Greece is pushing for a new European emergency mechanism that would apply when migration is weaponized or arrivals reach exceptional levels, Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris said. Athens is also working with Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria on the first return hubs outside the EU, with an agreement with a third country expected around the end of 2026 or early 2027 and a pilot project planned for 2027. Plevris says Greece’s main migration pressure now comes from Libya, while arrivals across the Aegean remain sharply lower.

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    Plevris: Greece Pushes EU Emergency Migration Plan – Return Hubs in Africa Targeted for 2027
  • Mitsotakis Rules Out ‘Loan’ of Parthenon Sculptures: ‘We Will Not Borrow Our Own Treasures’

    Mitsotakis Rules Out ‘Loan’ of Parthenon Sculptures: ‘We Will Not Borrow Our Own Treasures’

    Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has drawn a clear red line over the Parthenon Sculptures: Greece is seeking permanent reunification, will not accept any arrangement implying recognition of foreign ownership, and rejects the idea that Athens should “borrow” parts of its own monument. “The time has come for truth and justice,” he said in Thessaloniki.

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    Mitsotakis Rules Out ‘Loan’ of Parthenon Sculptures: ‘We Will Not Borrow Our Own Treasures’
  • G7 Opens the Oil Taps: 100 Million Barrels to Hit the Market as Trump Claims Victory

    G7 Opens the Oil Taps: 100 Million Barrels to Hit the Market as Trump Claims Victory

    The G7 has agreed to coordinate the release of 100 million barrels of oil reserves over four months, with a substantial frontloaded diesel release during the first 20 days. The move marks a major intervention in an increasingly strained global energy market, as the group seeks to contain price shocks, keep energy trade flowing and respond to disruptions linked to the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz.

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    G7 Opens the Oil Taps: 100 Million Barrels to Hit the Market as Trump Claims Victory
  • Greece Pays Down Another €2.5bn of Debt — Bank Privatisation Proceeds Flow Back to the EFSF

    Greece Pays Down Another €2.5bn of Debt — Bank Privatisation Proceeds Flow Back to the EFSF

    Greece has repaid €2.5 billion to the European Financial Stability Facility using proceeds linked to the reprivatisation of banks rescued during the debt crisis. The transaction forms part of a broader 2026 debt-reduction strategy of around €12.84 billion, aimed at lowering interest costs, accelerating the decline in the debt ratio and strengthening Greece’s position in international markets.

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    Greece Pays Down Another €2.5bn of Debt — Bank Privatisation Proceeds Flow Back to the EFSF
  • Merz under pressure at home as Europe prepares for uncertainty — “If Germany wavers, Europe wavers”

    Merz under pressure at home as Europe prepares for uncertainty — “If Germany wavers, Europe wavers”

    Friedrich Merz is trying to project resolve against Russia at a moment when his political position at home is weakening. The rise of the AfD, recent electoral setbacks and strains inside the governing coalition have triggered concern in European capitals, with at least two governments reportedly discussing scenarios for what a weakened or departing Merz could mean for the EU. At the same time, the chancellor is warning that if Germany falters over Ukraine, Europe will falter with it.

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    Merz under pressure at home as Europe prepares for uncertainty — “If Germany wavers, Europe wavers”
  • Rubio Heads to Athens: Washington Puts Greece in Focus as Defense,Energy and Eastern Mediterranean Top Agenda

    Rubio Heads to Athens: Washington Puts Greece in Focus as Defense, Energy and Eastern Mediterranean Top Agenda

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Athens on October 6–7 to lead the American delegation at the 6th US-Greece Strategic Dialogue, with Washington officially highlighting defense cooperation, regional security and energy security as key priorities.

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    Rubio Heads to Athens: Washington Puts Greece in Focus as Defense,Energy and Eastern Mediterranean Top Agenda
  • Erdoğan Draws a “Red Line” on GSI: “No Cable Without Our Consent” – Turkey Deploys Oruç Reis

    Erdoğan Draws a “Red Line” on GSI: “No Cable Without Our Consent” – Turkey Deploys Oruç Reis

    A double signal from Ankara in the Eastern Mediterranean: Turkey’s Defence Ministry says it will not allow “unauthorised” activities in areas it considers part of its continental shelf, while Oruç Reis begins a NAVTEX-covered mission between Turkey and northern Cyprus until October 25. In the wider geopolitical picture: the Great Sea Interconnector, Cyprus, Turkish-Libyan maritime claims and the Athens–Paris push to restart seabed surveys.

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    Erdoğan Draws a “Red Line” on GSI: “No Cable Without Our Consent” – Turkey Deploys Oruç Reis
  • Europe Pushes Back on Trump Over Diesel: “We Won’t Empty Our Reserves Under Pressure”

    Europe Pushes Back on Trump Over Diesel: “We Won’t Empty Our Reserves Under Pressure”

    Major European countries are coordinating a tougher response to U.S. pressure for a large release of strategic diesel stocks. Britain, France and Germany joined emergency talks aimed at crafting a more “assertive” position toward the Trump administration, which is urging Europe to put large volumes of fuel onto the market while Washington itself weighs possible restrictions on U.S. diesel exports. Europe’s concern is straightforward: emergency reserves should not be used primarily to solve a U.S. domestic price problem if that leaves Europe more exposed to the next energy shock.

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    Europe Pushes Back on Trump Over Diesel: “We Won’t Empty Our Reserves Under Pressure”
  • Plevris in Luxembourg: “Europe Must Protect Itself” — Greece Pushes Emergency Migration Mechanism

    Plevris in Luxembourg: “Europe Must Protect Itself” — Greece Pushes Emergency Migration Mechanism

    Athens is putting a European Emergency Mechanism for migration crises and the weaponisation of migrant flows on the table at the EU Home Affairs Council. Migration Minister Thanos Plevris is calling for reinforced border surveillance and exceptional tools in exceptional circumstances, as returns and crisis preparedness move higher up the European agenda.

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    Plevris in Luxembourg: “Europe Must Protect Itself” — Greece Pushes Emergency Migration Mechanism
  • Michailidou: 50% Upfront for Home Renovations — “Spiti Mou III” Targets 20,000 More Buyers

    Michailidou: 50% Upfront for Home Renovations — “Spiti Mou III” Targets 20,000 More Buyers

    Greece is accelerating its housing and family-support strategy: 14,000 applications for the renovation of homes, a 50% upfront payment starting in October, a new “Spiti Mou III” homeownership scheme targeting another 20,000 beneficiaries, and the first Social Consideration projects using public property in Athens and Paiania.

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    Michailidou: 50% Upfront for Home Renovations — “Spiti Mou III” Targets 20,000 More Buyers
  • Kerameus: 90% Wage Subsidy for Remote Work — Greece Targets Jobs in Mountain and Island Communities

    Kerameus: 90% Wage Subsidy for Remote Work — Greece Targets Jobs in Mountain and Island Communities

    Greece is preparing a new employment programme covering 90% of wages and social-security contributions for one year when businesses hire registered unemployed residents of remote, mountainous and island areas for remote-work positions. Labour Minister Niki Kerameus is also putting women and mothers at the centre of the next phase of employment policy.

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    Kerameus: 90% Wage Subsidy for Remote Work — Greece Targets Jobs in Mountain and Island Communities
  • Georgiadis from Dublin: Greece Aims to Be at the Forefront of Europe’s New Health Agenda

    Georgiadis from Dublin: Greece Aims to Be at the Forefront of Europe’s New Health Agenda

    Biotechnology, the pharmaceutical industry, MyHealth and the “PROLAMVANO” prevention programme are at the heart of Greece’s agenda at the Informal Meeting of EU Health Ministers — “Europe cannot afford to be left behind in innovation,” Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in Dublin.

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    Georgiadis from Dublin: Greece Aims to Be at the Forefront of Europe’s New Health Agenda
  • Stefanis: Ankara Is Looking for a Way Out — Even an Oruc Reis Scenario Is on the Table

    Stefanis: Ankara Is Looking for a Way Out — Even an Oruc Reis Scenario Is on the Table

    Alkiviadis Stefanis says Turkey is looking for ways to respond to the emerging energy and geopolitical balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. He sees even a possible Oruc Reis move as one of Ankara’s scenarios, explains why disposing of the S-400s remains a difficult equation, and argues that Greece’s Patriot deployment in Saudi Arabia carries significant geopolitical value.

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    Stefanis: Ankara Is Looking for a Way Out — Even an Oruc Reis Scenario Is on the Table
  • Oruc Reis Returns to the Cyprus Equation: New Surveys and Renewed Alert in Athens and Nicosia

    Oruc Reis Returns to the Cyprus Equation: New Surveys and Renewed Alert in Athens and Nicosia

    The re-emergence of Turkey’s research vessel Oruc Reis in the energy and geopolitical arena of the Eastern Mediterranean brings back a familiar but potentially dangerous scenario: surveys in areas Ankara links to its own maritime claims, at a time when Athens and Nicosia are trying to safeguard their energy plans and prevent new faits accomplis.

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    Oruc Reis Returns to the Cyprus Equation: New Surveys and Renewed Alert in Athens and Nicosia
  • Athens to Skopje: “Remove Irredentist Language from School Textbooks” – Prespa Agreement Back in Focus

    Athens to Skopje: “Remove Irredentist Language from School Textbooks” – Prespa Agreement Back in Focus

    Greece is calling for the removal of wording it considers revisionist or irredentist from school textbooks in North Macedonia, with Athens arguing that such content is incompatible with the obligations stemming from the Prespa Agreement. The issue is increasingly being linked to Skopje’s broader European path and its responsibility to fully implement bilateral commitments.

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    Athens to Skopje: “Remove Irredentist Language from School Textbooks” – Prespa Agreement Back in Focus
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