Europe must overcome its geopolitical stupor and accelerate the development of its defense strategy, which will include investments in Ukraine. “I spoke about the need to wake Europe from its economic and geopolitical stupor… Recent events and a different perspective from the US now compel us not only to confront the truth, but al... #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseIndustryUkraine #EUdefense #Geopolitics #KyriakosMitsotakis #RadosławSikorski
Greece calls on the EU to establish a €100B fund for its defense. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while preparing for a new EU defense strategy, has proposed creating a fund of at least €100B for the EU’s overall defense budget. Mitsotakis’ pro... #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #Greece #KyriakosMitsotakis #WeaponsProduction
Resulting from Russian attacks on Ukraine, electricity prices in Eastern Europe have increased by 100%. Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure caused electricity prices to double this summer in southeastern Europe. According to the FT, in a letter to the European Commission Greek Prime Minis... #Electricityprices #EnergyCrisis #energyEU #EnergyInfrastructure #KyriakosMitsotakis
Ukraine needs $9.5B in financing for priority recovery items; Ukraine’s partners are already working on mechanisms. The government has said that Ukraine needs $9.5B in external funding for priority recovery needs in 2024. To that end, the US State Department and the German Marshall Fund (GMF) have announced the cre... #InvestmentsinUkraine #KyriakosMitsotakis #OdesaRecovery #SupportUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
The US will provide Greece with $200M in aid in exchange for weapons for Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a letter to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with a proposal that Greece hands over or sells weapons to Ukraine in exchange for $200M in aid from Wash... #AnthonyBlinken #GreeceWeapons #KyriakosMitsotakis #MilitaryAidforUkraine #S300
Greece and Bulgaria are discussing the increase of grain transit from Ukraine. During a meeting in Athens on Monday, the Prime Ministers of Greece and Bulgaria, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikolai Denkov, discussed the problem with the transit of Ukrainian grain resulting from Russi... #agroexportukraine #GrainExportUkraine #KyriakosMitsotakis #NikolaiDenkov
