High Council

Greetings! Since the government isn’t producing much news for this column, except for Olgara, who popped up in court again yesterday with her signature black shades, “clarifying that she doesn’t make statements for the sake of her children”—who, if I’m not mistaken, are still babies, but anyway—I’ll move on to the PASOK-SYRIZA scene where things are more fun.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis greeted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he arrives at the Maximos Mansion in Athens for talks with the Greek leader.

A wide range of so-called "low diplomacy" issues will be revised on Thursday when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to Athens, accompanied by a number of Turkish government ministers.

Speaking ahead of the next two Greek-Turkish milestones, the UN General Assembly in New York in mid-September and the High Council between Greece and Turkey toward the end of the year, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis reiterated on Tuesday that the sole fundamental difference between the two countries, namely the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf, can be

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with numerous top diplomats and heads of international organizations on June 19 on the occasion of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) in southern Turkey.

Çavuşoğlu started the day with a trilateral meeting with the participation of foreign ministers of Malta and Libya, Evaris Bartolo and Najla Mangoush, respectively in Antalya.

As a protest against the election of a new chief prosecutor by ruling Socialists, opposition MPs threw smoke bombs in the Albanian parliament, reports actualno. 

Turkey's top religious official has slammed the Fethullah Gülen network for exploiting the Islamic religion in order to direct a social movement.

THESSALONIKI - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras met in Thessaloniki on Thursday for a closed-door meeting that lasted longer than the planned one hour, agreeing a joint declaration to be adopted by the High Council for Serbia-Greece cooperation.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will pay a one-day visit to Greece on Thursday to attend the first-ever meeting of the High Council for cooperation between Serbia and Greece, to be chaired by Greek PM Alexis Tsipras.

ATHENS - Greece is one of the largest investors in Serbia and we are brotherly nations, Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said in Athens on Monday, adding that he was looking forward to the upcoming meeting of a High Council for cooperation between Serbia and Greece.