Greece

Substantial opportunities and significant prospects are opening up for Greece with the emblematic upgrade of its strategic relationship with China which peaked with the visit of Chinese President Xi Jingpin to Athens

"Greece is 'open for business'. We are attracting Chinese, European, American and Japanese investments. I would like, however, to point out that the Chinese invested in the port of Piraeus when few other countries were considering direct investments.

There must be rules and institutions that settle problems without the intervention of ministers and the PM

Developments in Syria and the Middle East more generally have offered space to Russia and regional authoritarian leaders.

Given the situation and the confluence of events Mitsotakis cannot be a mere observer at his first summit.

We are dealing with an unbelievable leader of a superpower who overnight abandons his allies and with his provocative statements undermines his relations with Europe and triggers a chain reaction with all the regional countries.

Greece is not linked to or responsible for all this. As it happens however Greece due to its geographic position has become a transfer base.

Under the current regime those applying for asylum (the vast majority of migrants) must wait for at least a year-and-a-half for the procedure to commence.

For the first time in nearly 10 years about 50 percent of those polled approve the direction of economic policy and await an improvement of their own economic situation.

It is the duty of the state and of civil society to put an end to the festering waste management chaos that has bedeviled the country for years.

The attack in Saudi Arabia highlighted the dangers that can be created by a relatively small group of guerrillas and possible collaborators.

Merkel advocated multilateral cooperation and said that the idea that each country must fend for itself is a prescription for tumult.

All the data and information indicates that Turkey is allowing refugee flows in order to pressure and blackmail the EU in order to advance its demands on many open fronts.

'We have a prime minister whose goal is to bring about more investment and growth...we want to provide technical know-how in the agricultural sector,' Rutte said.

As an international affairs expert has said, 'In our day and age you don’t have to declare war against a country. Carefully directed refugee flows suffice to wreak havoc.'

A new climatic reality is emerging each year and there is no indication that this trend will change in the foreseeable future.

Dendias extolled the Greece-Italy partnership both on energy issues and migration.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci are due to have a rare meeting in Nicosia on Aug. 9 in a bid to jumpstart talks on a Cyprus problem solution.

Anastasiades said that he discussed with Mitsotakis ways to confront Turkish provocations in Cyprus’ EEZ.

The head of the geodynamic institute said that the 5.1 Richter temblor was the main earthquake and that the succession of smaller quakes was normal.