Greece's stance to any threat, "especially when originating from countries that raise their rhetoric and sink into their own isolation is a resounding NO," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday in Kalpaki, a historic battle location in 1940, in a message to Turkey.

The first drilling is expected to take place at the land concession of Ioannina and the sea "block 2" located Northwest of Corfu, which will give the first picture of the size of the natural gas deposits in Greece.

The new generation was the one that paid in the most intense way the repercussions of the last decade's crisis and this government's policies are focused on the new generation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday opening a discussion with young people in the city of Ioannina in the context of his ruling New Democracy (ND) pre-congress entitled "Next generations- with the eye to the future".