Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Alexis Tsipras’ footsteps regarding the Prespa Agreement

Since yesterday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been walking in the former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ footsteps regarding the Prespa Agreement. Following his meeting with the Prime Minister of North Macedonia, whom he addressed as dear Zoran, speaking at the Thessaloniki Summit 2019 Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the normalization of the two countries’ relations and its European …

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Zaev-Mitsotakis meeting: Greece supports North Macedonia’s European prospects

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis endorsed North Macedonia’s EU accession prospects during his meetings with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, as part of the 4th Thessaloniki Summit, while he appeared ready to undertake appropriate initiatives in this direction. This is a turning point for Mr. Mitsotakis, who up …

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PMs Zaev and Mitsotakis to meet today at the Thessaloniki Summit

North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says the coming NATO summit and the Prespa Agreement implementation will surely be discussed with Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Thessaloniki on Thursday. “The Thessaloniki Summit will focus on economic topics but we will surely discuss the European agenda too. I am grateful that Greece is directly involved in …

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Zaev expects enhanced economic cooperation with Greece

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will travel to Thessaloniki tomorrow to attend this year’s Summit, and will be part of the discussion “Southeast Europe: Regional Cooperation Initiatives and Reforms”. On the sidelines of the Summit, he will meet with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Zaev says he expects enhanced economic co-operation with Greece. “I want to …

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SYRIZA: The government is turning Greece into an “extra”

SYRIZA strongly criticizes the government’s foreign policy, accusing it of having reduced the country into a mere observer that has turned Greece into an “extra” of critical international developments. Opposition sources stress that in the wake of Zaev’s visit to Rome aimed at unblocking the accession process for North Macedonia, such an initiative should have …

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis in favor of North Macedonia’s accession prospects

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for the first time, refers to North Macedonia by its constitutional name in an interview on the Politico website, as part of his presence in Brussels for the Summit, and what’s more stands in favor of its accession prospects. Responding to Politico’s questions, he says: “We have always said that …

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Second round of Greek-US Strategic Dialogue discussions to commence on Monday

The second round of the Strategic Dialogue between Greece and USA begins on Monday, October 7, 2019. The Strategic Dialogue was launched in December 2018 in Washington, DC. The second round follows the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Greece and the upgrading of the Defense Agreement with the US via the signing …

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US Secretary Pompeo travels to Greece to deepen their historic alliance

US Secretary Mike Pompeo  has traveled to Athens from October 4-6, 2019, where he was set to meet Prime Minister Mitsotakis and members of his cabinet, including Foreign Minister Dendias and Defense Minister Panagiotopoulos, ahead of the 2019 U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue on October 7.  The United States and Greece proudly cooperate on defense and security …

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IBNA exclusive interview with Zaev: Greece will support us in the European Council.

On the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran ZAEV spoke exclusively to IBNA about his first meeting with the new Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Prime Minister, how was your first meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriacos Mitsotakis? For me it is …

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Zaev and Mitsotakis to meet at UN General Assembly in NY on Tuesday

According to Greek sources, North Macedonia’s PM Zoran Zaev and Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis are scheduled to meet on September 24th on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. This will be the first meeting of PMs Zaev and Mitsotakis of the two countries following Greece’s elections in early July. PM …

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be faced with the Prespa Agreement in Thessaloniki’s International Fair

After the first round of meetings in European capitals, Paris, Berlin, The Hague, and after launching major government initiatives, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is stepping up to TIF in order to capitalize on the political benefits of the first 60 days and maintain a positive momentum. As was the case in Berlin, in The Hague, which Kyriakos …

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The Prespa Agreement a millstone around Mitsotakis’ neck in Europe

Following New Democracy’s election victory and the assumption of power by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in July, the out-of-door narrative of the new government was delimited. Firstly, we inform Europeans of the government’s plan and then we go on to gain Greece’s lost credibility. From a semantic point of view, Paris and Berlin, as the dominant capitals …

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Mitsotakis to tell Merkel that he will respect the Prespa Agreement

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to convey the view that the Greek government will respect the Prespa Agreement, Ekatimerini reports. “As far as the Prespa name Agreement is concerned, Mitsotakis has every reason to stress his position that Greek foreign policy is stable and that …

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Mitsotakis and Tsipras clash in Parliament ahead of vote of confidence

A three-day parliamentary debate of the newly-elected New Democracy government’s policy program for the next four years got underway in Greek parliament on Saturday. The debate will culminate in a vote of confidence in the Kyriacos Mitsotakis administration on Monday night. Addressing MPs for the first time as premier, Kyriacos Mitsotakis outlined his conservative government’s …

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Mitsotakis: The conduct and cooperation of our neighbors will define their path to the EU

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in a speech related to the government’s confidence vote, said that he conduct and cooperation of our neighbors will define their path to the European Union. Mitsotakis briefly referred to the Prespa Agreement and Greek-Turkish relations. “As we have said on several occasions, a priority is to mitigate the negative …

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Zaev: We expect strategic partnership with Greece to continue

Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev says he expects strategic partnership and good neighbourly relations with Greece to continue even after the arrival of a new government in this country. Zaev stated this last evening in a televised interview. He said that the new Greek PM, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is careful with the Prespes Agreement. …

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