Out of bounds, with new challenges, Erdogan – K. Mitsotakis briefs his counterparts in Brussels

Of Dimitris Gatsiou

The conditions for a warm summer, which will refer to the time of 2020, when he was constantly pulling the rope due to challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean, are created by Turkey.

Following President Erdogan’s verbal delusion over the past week, yesterday the leader’s neighbor launched new threats against our country, with Ankara unable to digest the enhanced geostrategic and energy role of Athens in the region, while exporting , its internal crises.

Mitsotakis is no longer my interlocutor. Why? then you will go to the US, you will speak against Turkey in the US Congress.

What is this; For the applause he went there. Sorry. There is nothing that we can do about it. There is only one thing to do. “We are friends with those who are friends with us, but they should know very well that we will do what is necessary with those who see us as enemies,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters as he returned from a trip to Azerbaijan.

The Greek capital is constantly deciphering the growing challenges of its neighbors, with the government being fully aware of the possibility of another hot summer and continuing to inform partners and allies about Turkey’s extreme rhetoric.

What is becoming clear today, walking towards the extraordinary Summit of the “27” of the European Union (the works are closing in a few hours from now) is that Mr. Mitsotakis will seize the opportunity to inform his counterparts about the new delirium of statements by President Erdogan and top Turkish officials playing the dangerous game of escalation at a critical time of geopolitical change and fragile balances.

With the Greek capital proposing the concepts of international law, the law of the sea and the rules of good neighborliness, having been recognized as a source of security and stability on the map of the Mediterranean, “blue” diplomacy is based on determination and composure, as well as that our country is not going to take a step back from defending sovereign rights.

The visit of the Minister of Civil Protection, Takis Theodorikakou, to Evros is part of the broadcast of loud messages to the neighbor.

“The Greek Police in excellent cooperation with the Armed Forces and in absolute unity with the citizens of Evros are a powerful shield to protect our borders, the borders of Greece, which is also the border of the European Union with Turkey.

We are determined to further strengthen our deterrent power, and put an end to those who tool unhappy people: Irregular migrants. In the first four months of 2022 alone, the Greek Police in this wider area arrested 150 traffickers of illegal immigrants.

We are defending the principles of international law, we are defending the values ​​of our culture, we are effectively defending the territorial integrity of our homeland “, noted Mr. Theodorikakos.

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In addition to the issues of Turkish provocation, about which the Prime Minister will inform his “26” counterparts, Athens is turning its radars on Brussels for another critical front, related to the burning issue of the energy crisis.

With the bar of expectations moving in shallow waters, due to the attitude that the so-called and “frugal” of the North are expected to take to the issue of a “pan-European solution”, Mr. Mitsotakis is heading to the του appointment of the extraordinary European Council with fixed positions.

Positions that he will bring today and tomorrow to the forefront of the interventions he will make, such as the one for the pan-European ceiling on the price of gas. In any case, the strategy of the government, often expressed by Mr. Mitsotakis, has always had the continuous support of households and businesses at the top of the crisis map.

“We are already implementing one of the largest anti-precision support programs in the energy sector in Europe. In a few days, the relevant platform will be opened to cover retrospectively 60% of the additional price increases in electricity, as we have committed.

And these discounts are increasing and spreading to many, to most of our fellow citizens, regardless of the consumption they make. While from July 1, the new mechanism will be in force, which in practice, as we have said, neutralizes the adjustment clause.

And all this means that the next accounts will now be much more balanced, despite the crisis which, unfortunately, continues. “They mean, however, that the government is here and will be here for every citizen who is tested,” the prime minister hastened to note, from the podium of the last cabinet.