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The Long Horizon Radar System and the 2019 Noble Dina Naval Exercise

19 Mar 2019, 5:26 pm

Greece and Cyprus have deepened military cooperation ties with Israel in past months. This is best evidenced from resurged interest in the permanent installation of a marine radar system in Eastern Crete. The so-called Long Horizon system would cost approximately $8 billion – a rather considerable amount of expenses for the debt-squeezed defence…

A wind of geopolitical change in Eastern Mediterranean Sea

18 Mar 2019, 12:42 am

A wind of change has taken over the East Mediterranean Sea. The U.S. interests in the region appear to coincide with Greece and Cyprus. Undeniably, Turkey’s relations with the U.S. have reached at their lowest ebb. Athens and Nicosia have…

Disturbing war of words post-New Zealand attacks adds fuel to incomprehensible religious adversity

15 Mar 2019, 10:38 pm

The abhorrent events at two mosques in the city of Christchurch New Zealand earlier on Friday have reasonably caused international concern. The perpetrator of the attacks disseminated in social media at an earlier stage a religious…

Lebanon warned EastMed stakeholders to respect Beirut maritime boundaries

8 Mar 2019, 4:31 pm

Lebanon threatened on Thursday adjacent littoral states that the envisaged EastMed pipeline project must not violate its maritime territorial waters. The EastMed pipeline project aims to transfer natural gas resources from Israeli…

Energean announced initiation of gas drilling operations in Israel

5 Mar 2019, 3:47 pm

Greece’s Energean Oil and Gas announced on Monday the initiation of its gas drilling programme at Israel within 2019.

Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides welcomed participation of U.S. State Secretary in…

2 Mar 2019, 8:48 pm

Cyprus Foreign Minister, Nicos Christodoulides, arrived in Athens on Friday to participate in the 4th Delphi Economic Forum panels.

Israel to assist Greece in fighting anti-Semitism, hate crimes

19 Dec 2018, 8:49 pm

Greece and Israel on Wednesday initiated the first bilateral dialog on fighting anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism, amid a spate of vandalisms against Holocaust monuments and Jewish cemeteries across Greece.

Palestinian Ambassador Toubassi: Israel fully responsible for worsening situation in Gaza

14 Nov 2018, 5:49 pm

The Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority to Greece Marwan Toubassi, in an announcement on Wednesday, said that Israel was fully to blame for the worsening situation in the Gaza Strip and called on the "friendly Greek government and the…

Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Netanyahu in Israel

11 Jun 2018, 6:16 pm

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday during a visit to Jerusalem.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis to visit Israel

11 Jun 2018, 1:42 pm

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Israel on Monday to attend the Global Forum in Jerusalem, where his father and former prime minister of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis will be honoured for his…

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