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By Angelos Athanasopoulos The transformation of Alexandroupolis into a “new Souda” is perhaps the most basic change that can be expected after the completion of negotiations that are in full for the new amendment of the bilateral Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA). The geographic position of Alexandroupolis (and of Thrace more broadly), as well as the emerging axis toward Varna, Bulgaria, has become extremely valuable for US (and NATO) strategic planning as an alternative route to ...

  Thank you, Markos and let me start by saying thanks to The Economist for having me back.  This is my fifth government roundtable, but most importantly it’s my third time having the honor of appearing with Minister Panagiotopoulos. In preparation for today, I did something I don’t often do, which is I went back and I looked at what did I say two years ago?  That was just a couple of days after the Mitsotakis government came to office.  My headline there was that we, the United States, ...

Greece to procure four new frigates for the Hellenic Navy. Credit: Hellenic NavyGreece has accepted proposals from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Italy for four new frigates to bolster its Hellenic Navy.Greece could potentially use up to 5 billion euros to invest in frigates from the American Multi-Mission Surface…

President Sakellaropoulou inspects the Greek Navy on Friday. Credit: Presidency of the Hellenic RepublicPresident of the Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou inspected navy fleet vessels at sea from the frigate Hydra in the Saronic Gulf on Friday, as Athens considers the purchase of four new frigates.She was was attending the closing stages of the Hellenic Navy’s military…

Greek Ministry of Defense has shortlisted six countries for evaluating proposals for the acquisition of four new frigates for the Hellenic Navy

Drones provide an asymmetrical advantage to Turkey—being far less expensive than tanks.

Petrochori As Delivered Kalimera sas.  I want to start this afternoon by thanking Deputy Minister Stefanis for giving us a lift up to Petrochori so we could observe this exercise and the final phase of the bilateral U.S.-Hellenic Army exercise IMMEDIATE RESPONSE/ CENTAUR 21 as part of DEFENDER-Europe 21. Minister, you’ve been a fantastic friend, and so much of what we’ve accomplished was on display today, so thank you again. I also want to acknowledge all of our partners from the Hellenic ...

Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea. In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen...

Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea. In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen...

Kathimerini May 10, 2021 Ms. Kakaounaki:  Ambassador Pyatt, welcome to your fifth Delphi Economic Forum, although unfortunately we’re not in Delphi.  You’ve said numerous times that Greece has changed a lot since you first arrived.  Did you expect this?  And what has surprised you the moist? Ambassador Pyatt:  I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t an optimist.  And I did something very interesting today.  Before we had this conversation I went back and watched my conversation wi...