The EU has a strategic interest in having a stable and secure environment in the Eastern Mediterranean and in developing cooperation and a mutually beneficial relationship with Turkey, states the draft report of the European Commission on enlargement, which came to the knowledge of Greek state news agency APE-MPE.

In statements after meeting his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo on Sunday, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias accused Turkey of creating a "monstrosity" in the Turkish-Libyan memorandum of 2019, by blackmailing and exerting pressure on Libyan officials.
According to a Greek foreign ministry tweet, Dendias was welcomed by Shoukry, with whom he discussed the long-standing strategic relations between Greece and Egypt, as well as the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and Libya.

Yesterday's dinner of the leaders participating in the Prague Summit turned into an informal brawl between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.