Campaigning for Euro elections resumes after Easter break

After the Easter respite, party leaders resume their pre-election campaigns on Tuesday, as we enter the last stretch before the European Parliament elections.

On the diplomatic front, the government in Athens is preparing for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' planned visit to Ankara next Monday, where he will be meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The other issue that could dominate the political agenda in Greece is a visit by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama over the weekend, at a time when relations between the two neighbors have been strained over the conviction and imprisonment of the elected ethnic-Greek mayor of Himare, Fredi Beleri.

Election campaigning

Both Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and main opposition SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis are set to visit western Greece this week. Socialist PASOK leader Nikos...