A day before the EU Summit, Athens, turns its attention to Rome, focusing on the dinner Mario Draghi has invited the Greek PM to on Wednesday night. Government sources describe the Italian prime minister's table with his Greek counterpart as a one-on-one meeting that will help build closer relations.

The barrage of Turkish threats and provocations knows no end, since both government officials and the Media are constantly targeting Greece, but also the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, personally.

In the run-up to today's Southeastern Europe Cooperation Process Summit in Thessaloniki on Friday in the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ratcheted inflammatory rhetoric to an unprecedented degree.