The agenda of the European Union Summit, which begins tomorrow in Brussels, was cited by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during his speech this morning in the Parliament of Rome, in which he noted Turkey's destabilizing role in the eastern Mediterranean.

A trilateral joint maritime exercise of Cyprus, France, and Italy is scheduled to start on Thursday.

Strategically, the landscape on the Libyan front is now odder than before, with the latest developments raising serious suspicions that the Turkish movement in cooperation with the “Tripoli government” of Saraj may have accelerated their MoU in order to prevent imminent developments in Libya, driven by the support that Russian mercenaries have given Khalifa Haftar’s forces in recent months, tightening the noose around Tripoli. This inevitably complicates Greece’s options…