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The timing of the next round of talks is not coincidental as EU leaders in December agreed to revisit the prospect of sanctions against Turkey at their March summit.

The talks began in 2002, when Pasok's Costas Simitis was PM and were abruptly cut off after the failed coup attempt against Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July, 2016. 

“At some point it became clear that it would not be possible to deliver so quickly,” Tuereci told Spiegel. “By then it was already too late to place follow-on orders.”

European Union countries including Germany, France, Austria and Italy have said they plan to start vaccinations from Dec. 27 as Europe tries to catch up with the United States and Britain.

The ECB's aim is to maintain the historic low in the cost of borrowing for both countries and businesses that have been hit hard by the pandemic.

The new target aims to put the EU on track to reach net zero emissions by 2050, a deadline scientists say the world must meet to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Michael Roth, the German Minister of State for Europe, declared that it would be irresponsible and futile for the two countries to effectively veto the EU’s Pandemic Recovery Fund.

It will take months until the vaccines and the new medicines are very widely distributed and no one can predict what will happen in the world until then.

Erdogan is forging new alliances which explain the projection of Turkish power from the Red Sea to the Caucasus and his bid for the lion’s share of the hydrocarbons in the Southeastern Mediterranean.

Turkey is continually opening new military fronts and in so doing it is acting in a destabilising manner and is displaying a glaring indifference to the fact that it has lost all of its traditional allies.

' Moria is a stark reminder that the clock has run out on how long we can live in a house half-built. The time has come to rally around a common, European migration policy,' said European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas.

" The US welcomes reports that Greece-Turkey are ready for exploratory talks on maritime delimitation issues, as talks have potential to contribute to easing of regional tensions," the US State Department said in a tweet.

The PM said that his views coincide with those of the European Council president, pointing out that "the EU's geopolitical and strategic interests are at stake here".

It is the duty of the Greek state to reveal his schemes and role and to communicate to the international community the threat that Turkey poses to regional security and peace.

Greece is marching alone in facing the provocations of its troublemaking neighbor Turkey, which has no compunction over exploiting refugees and migrants.

Turkey occupied part of Syria thanks to an agreement with the US and Russia and it signed an illegal agreement supposedly delimiting the two countries’ EEZ’s, even though they are not contiguous.

Bloomberg saw room for Ankara to extend its influence in Libya and described Erdogan’s ambitions as follows: 'A national construct abroad seems better than domestic crisis management.'

Borrell, who visited the Kastanies Greek-Turkish border crossing station at Evros earlier on Wednesday with Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias, reaffirmed that the EU is committed to the protection of Greece's sovereignty.

In her remarks Christine Lagarde spoke of her institutional role and of challenges that can potentially be raised by national judges not supportive of EU law and rules.

Over nearly two months eu countries and leaders learned their lesson and recognised their responsibility toward their citizens and the EU more broadly.