An event focused on business and investment opportunities in Egypt was organized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the Egyptian Embassy in Athens.
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Egypt’s announcement that 12 plots will be available for hydrocarbon exploration is seen as a message of stability and the will for constructive relations with all players in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Constantinos Kombos of Cyprus, Badr Abdelatty of Egypt and George Gerapetritis of Greece discussed the next Trilateral Summit that will take place in Cairo later in the year.
This year’s Medusa 24 exercise, which will take place throughout the area surrounding Crete, reaching as far as Kasos and Karpathos, highlights Greece and Egypt’s extremely close relationship, as well as cooperation with key players in the EU and the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.
Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the visit of Egypt’s President al-Sisi to Turkey, explore whether we are seeing relations between Turkey and Egypt turn a new page, and break down what this means for the region.
This is not the first great turnaround in policy by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, the exchange of niceties with the Egyptian president whom, until recently, he was calling a “putschist” and “dictator,” has special significance.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Wednesday in the first presidential level visit in 12 years amid a warming of long-frozen relations between the regional powers.
News reports state that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will visit Turkey on September 4 and meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which is seen as another sign of Ankara’s rapprochement with Cairo.
Athens appears troubled by Turkey’s reconciliation with Egypt, which is facing major economic problems as a result of the Middle East conflict.
The Egyptian ambassador to Greece, Omar Amer Youssef, has praised the strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries, emphasizing their shared goal of “a prosperous and stable Mediterranean region.”
Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest recorded boat disasters in the Mediterranean.
Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Gerapetritis, after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Athens on Monday, stated that the two countries have “a strategic relationship that shall not be determined by external factors.”
The cessation of aid deliveries through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is connected to the threat posed to humanitarian work by Israel’s military operation in the area, Egypt’s foreign minister has said in Athens.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Athens on Monday at noon. Following the talks between the delegations, the two ministers will address the press at 1.15 p.m.
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Athens Tuesday, when some among the 1,000-odd crowd attempted to scale the gates of the Egyptian embassy.
An Egypt-bound flight from Scotland had to make an emergency landing in Crete on Monday evening due to unruly conduct by a pair of passengers.
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