“We will never accept that Greece from being a sovereign country turns into a transit country for refugees and immigrants to the rest of Western Europe,” Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said speaking to the “SKAI” television station. “Something like that would undermine our sovereign rights, our obligations under the Schengen treaty and the sense […]
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M. Varvitsiotis: Greece will not turn from a country into a transit point for refugees and immigrants
“The Greek government is monitoring the Turkish provocation with calmness and determination,” underlined Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, after the meeting he had with the Slovak Deputy Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Martin Klus, who is visiting Greece. “That is why yesterday the KYSEA decided on a series of measures, among which is the […]
M. Varvitsiotis: Greeks should not be divided in the face of Turkish propaganda
“I don’t think there is currently a majority of Greeks who would like us to return to times when the country’s borders were unguarded, we accepted anyone who passed and we made no effort to guard the borders or prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country,” said the Deputy Minister Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, speaking […]
M. Varvitsiotis: Time for decisions to ease energy costs for the citizen
“We are one of the countries that are pushing for proposals to be submitted in order to ease the energy costs for the European citizen”, stressed the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, coming today to the informal EU General Affairs Council in Prague, recalling that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has proposed for months […]
‘Germany knows that Turkey is an authoritarian state’
The Greek-Turkish issues, Germany’s attitude towards Ankara, immigration and the issue of unanimity in the EU are on the agenda of VP Miltiadis Varvitsiotis in Berlin. In previous years, the visits of Greek officials to the German capital had almost exclusively one object: the overcoming of the economic crisis and tough reforms. Now this has […]
M. Varvitsiotis: Germany remains firmly committed to the defense of Greek sovereignty
Germany remains firmly committed to the defense of Greece’s sovereign rights and sovereignty, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis notes with satisfaction to APE-MPE, as an overall finding after the completion of his two-day visit to Berlin. On the agenda of his talks, there were the war in Ukraine, the energy and food crisis, but also […]
The agenda of M. Varvitsiotis’ contacts during the first day of his visit to Berlin
The war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, Turkish provocation and immigration were among the issues raised in the context of the contacts of Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis during today’s first day of his visit to Berlin. Tomorrow, Mr. Varvitsiotis will meet, among others, with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for European Affairs […]
Visit of M. Varvitsiotis to Berlin – Meeting with the Foreign Minister of Germany
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for European Affairs, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, is making a two-day visit to Berlin on July 6 and 7, 2022. In particular, on Wednesday July 6, Mr. Varvitsiotis will have a meeting with the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Parliament, MP Mr. Michael Roth, while on […]
M. Varvitsiotis: European citizens want a strong Europe against revisionism
“It is important to realize that Europe is not just a place where we get subsidies or where we do not use a passport, it is a place that provides economic and geopolitical security and a community of principles and values ​​that we want to prevail in our country,” the deputy stressed today Minister of […]
Greek-Russian Cooperation Protocol was co-signed by M. Varvitsiotis
The 13th Joint Interministerial Committee for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Greece and Russia – held in Moscow – was co-chaired today, the second day of his visit to the Russian capital, by Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis. He also announced in a post on Twitter that he co-signed the Greek-Russian Cooperation Protocol with […]
