Greece is a strong member state of the European Union and of NATO, and it is a country that has strategic relations with the United States it wants to deepen, and a country that can now jointly formulate European policies, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during his conversation with journalist and author Robert D. Kaplan at the Delphi Economic Forum X on Thursday.

Greece has joined 16 other European nations in calling for a revision of EU laws to facilitate the return of irregular migrants.

The European Commission has given the “green light” for 150 million euros of state aid for Greece’s first CCS Project, “Prinos CO2″, located in the Gulf of Kavala, northeastern Greece, by Energean, after negotiations between Greece’s Ministry of Environment and Energy and the commission concluded positively. This marks Greece’s first CO2 geological storage project venture.