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The meeting of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA), chaired by PM Alexis Tsipras who cut his election campaign in the Dodecanese short to attend, has ended with the various scenarios of a possible escalation in the Greek-Turkish relations, due to the latter’s provocative stance against Cyprus being discussed.

Fulfilling terms it had agreed to with European creditors in 2018 is an absolutely necessary condition for further debt relief measures, ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling warned on Thursday, confirming the now frigid relations between the current, and outgoing, Tsipras government and the former.

It’s the first time in a decade that a Greek government has the luxury of discussing its own plan for the next four years, a program to be approved by the Greek people instead of by the troika of Greece’s lenders, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday evening.