Mediterranean

Two of Europe's most powerful leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, charged on Thursday that Europe must protect the sovereignty of the borders of its member nations. The two leaders made their remarks at a joint...

The sharp increase in tensions between Greece and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean was addressed by EU President Charles Michel on Wednesday, after a teleconference called in Brussels to address the ongoing unrest in Belarus. The EU head placed the...

The Parliament of Egypt has voted its approval for the recent maritime deal signed by Greece and Egypt in Cairo, setting into law the mutually-agreed-upon boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of the two countries in the Eastern Mediterranean. According...

Cale Brown, the spokesperson for the office of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Sunday, August 16 that the Secretary had met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in the Dominican Republic. The statement read: "Secretary Pompeo and...

Israeli Prine Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek FM Nikos Dendias meeting in Jerusalem on Thursday. Photo Twitter.com/NetanyahuGreece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday amidst the sharply-increasing tensions in the Mediterranean after a...

In a statement released on Monday, the US State Department voiced its condemnation of Turkey's most recent actions in the Eastern Mediterranean as it sent the vessel Oruc Reis to probe for oil and gas just to the south...

Responding to Thursday's signing of a maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt delineating the EEZ's of each nation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation would again recommence drilling...

    Greek Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas called Turkey's decision to de-escalate tensions in the southeastern Mediterranean a "positive action" in an interview with Skai television on Tuesday. Petsas stated that he welcomed "...the fact that we have this statement on Turkey's...

Turkey announced on Tuesday that it will “put on hold for a while” energy-exploration operations in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that have raised tensions with Greece and Cyprus. Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin, revealed that Erdogan said “let's follow a constructive...

    The diplomatic marathon initiated by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, by which he keeps in constant contact with regional and European officials regarding the troubling situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, continued on Friday. Earlier in the day, Dendias had a phone...