Georgiadis: Greece Aims to Become a Health Innovation Hub — The Israeli Model in Focus

Adonis Georgiadis, honored at the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Health Conference, called for faster adoption of pharmaceutical and technological innovation in Greece, while openly acknowledging that clawback pressures create serious disincentives. He highlighted Israel as a model for turning innovation into economic growth and better healthcare services.

Papastavrou: ‘We Will Not Ask Turkey for Permission’ – The Plan for Cheaper Power and Energy Security

Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou says Greece will not seek Turkey’s approval to exercise its sovereign rights, while outlining a three-year strategy built around renewables, storage, island interconnections and self-consumption to reduce the country’s dependence on natural gas and external energy shocks.

ECB Plays With Fire: Higher Rates, Surging Oil and the Specter of 2008

Christine Lagarde is raising rates again to fight inflation increasingly driven by war and energy disruption. But interest rates cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz or repair damaged pipelines. The danger is that Europe repeats the mistake of 2008 — fighting an external energy shock by squeezing its own economy into recession.

AfD, Reform UK and RN Aren’t the Same Story

AfD, Reform UK and France’s National Rally are rising on similar grievances, but they are not advancing toward power in the same way. Germany, Britain and France have three different electoral barriers — and importing the wrong lesson from one system into another risks helping the very parties mainstream forces are trying to contain.

Israel Warns Turkey: ‘Distance Will Provide No Immunity’ as Mediterranean Power Balance Shifts

Israeli Navy chief Vice Adm. Eyal Harel has warned actors seeking to alter the balance of power in the Mediterranean and Red Sea that Israel is watching and preparing. He did not explicitly name Turkey, but Israeli media interpreted the message as a clear warning to Ankara at a time when Israel, Greece and Cyprus are deepening their strategic and defense ties.

Athens Enters the Hedge Fund Map: Millennium and Rokos Put Greece on Global Finance’s Radar

The Greek government spent nearly a year building a strategy to attract major hedge funds to Athens. It is now seeing the first heavyweight names move in. Millennium Management and Rokos Capital Management could become anchor players for a new financial ecosystem built around tax predictability, a 5% carried-interest regime for qualifying professionals and an effort to bring highly skilled Greek talent back home.

Mocha Falls Again: How the Houthis Are Redrawing the Red Sea Order

The fall of Mocha and the Houthi advance toward Perim Island, the Hanish archipelago and Bab al-Mandeb are no longer just another episode in Yemen’s civil war. They mark a shift in the balance of power around one of the world’s most important maritime corridors, with direct implications for Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, global shipping and the Horn of Africa.

Mitsotakis From Kastellorizo: “Stability Does Not Mean Retreat” — Greece’s New Shield Takes Shape

Speaking from Greece’s easternmost frontier, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a carefully calibrated message on national security: Athens seeks stability and dialogue, but not at the expense of sovereign rights or in acceptance of faits accomplis. He linked that doctrine to Greece’s military build-up — Rafale fighters, Belharra and FREMM frigates and, above all, the “Achilles Shield,” the country’s emerging multi-layered air and missile defence architecture.

Androulakis at TIF: “This Should Be New Democracy’s Final Mile” — His First Six-Month Plan

Nikos Androulakis used the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair to make his clearest bid yet for government: seven flagship reforms for the first six months, lower energy costs, tougher action against market concentration, tax relief for SMEs, a new strategy for agriculture and a “New Helsinki” framework for relations with Turkey. His central message was unmistakable: PASOK wants to be judged not simply as an opposition party, but as a government-in-waiting.

BRICS Calls for ‘Maximum Restraint’ as Middle East War Deepens — But Divisions Remain

The New Delhi summit exposed both the strength and the weakness of the BRICS bloc: Iran and the UAE managed to sign up to a call for “maximum restraint,” yet the group avoided naming responsibility for the escalation. Where its language became much sharper was on economics — with a direct challenge to unilateral tariffs, sanctions and the wider use of Western financial pressure.

Ukraine’s $1.2 Billion Corruption Scandal Becomes a Weapon at the Negotiating Table

Ukrainian government audits reportedly identified roughly $1.2 billion lost to fraud, waste and mismanagement in 2024 defence procurement. But Kyiv’s biggest risk goes beyond the money: the revelations are landing during a highly sensitive US-led diplomatic push and could become leverage over future military aid, reconstruction funding and the terms of any eventual settlement.

Houthis at Bab el-Mandeb: Iran’s ‘Second Chokehold’ on Oil Puts Trump in a Red Sea Dilemma

The Houthis are gaining ground around the strategic island of Perim at the heart of Bab el-Mandeb, just as the Strait of Hormuz remains under severe pressure and Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline has faced disruption. Washington now confronts a dangerous choice: open another military front in Yemen or accept a stronger Iran-aligned pressure point over two of the world’s most critical energy arteries.