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The Eastern Mediterranean faces many challenges in today's shifting geopolitical landscape, "from the threat of climate change and need for energy security, to dangerous leaders in neighboring Turkey or Russia," US Senator & Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert (Bob) Menendez told the 1st East Macedonia & Thrace Forum, held in the northeastern Greek city of Alexandroupolis on February 22-23.

Close defence cooperation with the United States and NATO is a shield that offers deterrent power to Greece, Senator Robert Menendez said during the "Delphi Economic Forum" in Washington. The senator referred in detail to all the recent steps that have substantially upgraded defence cooperation between the two sides and work to the benefit of both Greece and the USA.

The partial and - in any case - temporary re-evaluation of the US strategy towards Turkey has worried Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is going through a difficult pre-election period and sees that the attempted haggling "give me the F-16s and then I will give you give my consent to Sweden joining NATO", he did not catch on.