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GREECE LEFT ALONE AGAINST TURKEY. Conte leaving the summit on Friday has abandoned his friendly nation …

Friday's EU Leaders' Summit did not bode well for Greece, which expected effective European solidarity, especially as five countries are still blocking sanctions against Turkey. Indeed, it had a worse ending than the previous summit on 2 October. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has done everything possible to strengthen his diplomatic line of defense against the intentions of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. However, Mitsotakis' ambitions clashed with the differing interests of specific EU Member States.

The Greek side presented a proposal on the imposition of an embargo on the sale of arms to Turkey, which was ultimately not included in the text of the previous conclusions. The Prime Minister in his press conference did not try to cover the back and forth of European leaders. The opposite. The climate that reigns in Brussels for Turkey was summed up by a EU diplomatic source with the phrase "difficult days are coming".

Perhaps, but this has not prevented, according to information, Germany, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Malta from blocking the embargo, due to an intertwining of economic reasons and the fear of illegal immigration exploited by Erdoğan, or out of fear of internal revolts, especially in Germany. Greece was backed by France, Austria and Slovenia, while other countries simply didn't care. Especially those from the East, interested in the Belarusian case, but disinterested in the Greek-Turkish one. In the end, Greece is a nuisance …

Mitsotakis was disarmingly honest when he said that at the previous summit, when leaders discussed Turkey at length, “it was clear that we had a long way to go explaining to our European counterparts why this issue is not only important for Greece and Cyprus, but which is crucial for Europe and for geopolitical stability in the eastern Mediterranean. I believe that after each meeting we still have a long way to go in this direction “.

It's Italy? Recall that Conte has deserted the end of the meetings by delegating the decisions to Merkel, so we find ourselves with a pro-Turkish foreign policy. The absent are always wrong, and when they call themselves Di Maio they don't even have the courage to defend their national interests.


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The article GREECE LEFT ALONE AGAINST TURKEY. Conte leaving the summit on Friday has left the friendly nation … comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-grecia-lasciata-da-sola-contro-la-turchia-conte-lasciando-il-vertice-venerdi-ha-abbandonato-la-nazione-amica/ on Wed, 21 Oct 2020 06:00:38 +0000.