METLEN is preparing to produce up to 50 tonnes of gallium annually — enough, according to the company, to cover Europe’s entire current demand. Yet Evangelos Mytilineos is warning of a striking European paradox: the EU wants to reduce its dependence on China, while European buyers continue to favour cheaper Chinese supply.
Georgiadis: Greece Moves Aggressively into Medical Tourism – New Framework for Longevity and Wellness Clinics
From Crete and the Cyclades to the Dodecanese, the North Aegean and the new electricity bridge with Italy: €4 billion invested over the past nine years and a €6 billion programme through 2030 capture IPTO’s transition into a new era.
Athens is reaffirming in the clearest terms its sovereign right to extend its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, stressing that both the timing and manner of exercising that right are decisions for Greece alone. Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis also linked this position to Greece’s formal diplomatic démarche to Turkey, signalling that Athens is moving beyond rhetoric and putting its legal position formally on record.
Adonis Georgiadis, honored at the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Health Conference, called for faster adoption of pharmaceutical and technological innovation in Greece, while openly acknowledging that clawback pressures create serious disincentives. He highlighted Israel as a model for turning innovation into economic growth and better healthcare services.
Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou says Greece will not seek Turkey’s approval to exercise its sovereign rights, while outlining a three-year strategy built around renewables, storage, island interconnections and self-consumption to reduce the country’s dependence on natural gas and external energy shocks.
Christine Lagarde is raising rates again to fight inflation increasingly driven by war and energy disruption. But interest rates cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz or repair damaged pipelines. The danger is that Europe repeats the mistake of 2008 — fighting an external energy shock by squeezing its own economy into recession.
AfD, Reform UK and France’s National Rally are rising on similar grievances, but they are not advancing toward power in the same way. Germany, Britain and France have three different electoral barriers — and importing the wrong lesson from one system into another risks helping the very parties mainstream forces are trying to contain.
Israeli Navy chief Vice Adm. Eyal Harel has warned actors seeking to alter the balance of power in the Mediterranean and Red Sea that Israel is watching and preparing. He did not explicitly name Turkey, but Israeli media interpreted the message as a clear warning to Ankara at a time when Israel, Greece and Cyprus are deepening their strategic and defense ties.
The Greek government spent nearly a year building a strategy to attract major hedge funds to Athens. It is now seeing the first heavyweight names move in. Millennium Management and Rokos Capital Management could become anchor players for a new financial ecosystem built around tax predictability, a 5% carried-interest regime for qualifying professionals and an effort to bring highly skilled Greek talent back home.
The fall of Mocha and the Houthi advance toward Perim Island, the Hanish archipelago and Bab al-Mandeb are no longer just another episode in Yemen’s civil war. They mark a shift in the balance of power around one of the world’s most important maritime corridors, with direct implications for Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, global shipping and the Horn of Africa.
Speaking from Greece’s easternmost frontier, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a carefully calibrated message on national security: Athens seeks stability and dialogue, but not at the expense of sovereign rights or in acceptance of faits accomplis. He linked that doctrine to Greece’s military build-up — Rafale fighters, Belharra and FREMM frigates and, above all, the “Achilles Shield,” the country’s emerging multi-layered air and missile defence architecture.
Nikos Androulakis used the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair to make his clearest bid yet for government: seven flagship reforms for the first six months, lower energy costs, tougher action against market concentration, tax relief for SMEs, a new strategy for agriculture and a “New Helsinki” framework for relations with Turkey. His central message was unmistakable: PASOK wants to be judged not simply as an opposition party, but as a government-in-waiting.
The New Delhi summit exposed both the strength and the weakness of the BRICS bloc: Iran and the UAE managed to sign up to a call for “maximum restraint,” yet the group avoided naming responsibility for the escalation. Where its language became much sharper was on economics — with a direct challenge to unilateral tariffs, sanctions and the wider use of Western financial pressure.
Ukrainian government audits reportedly identified roughly $1.2 billion lost to fraud, waste and mismanagement in 2024 defence procurement. But Kyiv’s biggest risk goes beyond the money: the revelations are landing during a highly sensitive US-led diplomatic push and could become leverage over future military aid, reconstruction funding and the terms of any eventual settlement.
The Houthis are gaining ground around the strategic island of Perim at the heart of Bab el-Mandeb, just as the Strait of Hormuz remains under severe pressure and Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline has faced disruption. Washington now confronts a dangerous choice: open another military front in Yemen or accept a stronger Iran-aligned pressure point over two of the world’s most critical energy arteries.
Athens says the conditions do not yet exist for a special agreement with Turkey as long as Ankara seeks to bring sovereignty issues into the discussion. Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis reasserts Greece’s unilateral right to extend its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, places the Greece–Cyprus electricity link within a European and international legal framework, and rejects claims that dialogue with Turkey amounts to retreat.
New Democracy rises to 25.5% after the Thessaloniki International Fair and maintains a clear nine-point advantage. Alexis Tsipras’ EL.AS. climbs to 16.5%, PASOK edges up to 9%, while Maria Karystianou’s party loses four percentage points in just two months. Behind the headline figures, a new political landscape is taking shape: Mitsotakis remains firmly ahead, Tsipras is emerging as the main challenger, and the battle below them is becoming increasingly ruthless.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tasos Hatzivassiliou described Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ visit to Kastellorizo as highly symbolic, sending a direct message to Turkey: Greece will not accept any challenge to its sovereignty and does not need anyone’s permission to visit any part of its territory.
Riyadh has shut the strategic East–West Pipeline after drone attacks launched from Iraq. With Hormuz already disrupted and the Houthis tightening their grip around Bab el-Mandeb, the global oil market is confronting a dangerous squeeze on both of Saudi Arabia’s main export corridors.
The Greek prime minister’s visit to the remote Aegean island carries a powerful sovereignty message to Ankara. Maritime zones, Turkish NAVTEX notices, defense buildup and the Greece–Cyprus power cable are bringing tensions back to the surface, as Turkish media portray the trip as a “provocation.”
