Merkel: We can't rely on the US anymore. I have experienced this in the last days. We Europeans should take destiny in our own hands. ~
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Yannis Koutsomitis
@YanniKouts
European affairs analyst. Managing Editor . Senior Media Advisor . Advisory Board . Commentary . #EUinfluencer.
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Waiting for Boris Johnson to congratulate Zelensky on Ukraine’s candidacy for membership in the European Union.
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Here's the video of Merkel's speech in Munich saying that Europe can't rely on the US & the UK anymore and "must take destiny in own hands".
Trump in reality distortion field.
People in the UK march in thousands because they ask for more public funds for the NHS, not for cutbacks.
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The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!
[#Russia's leading] a very sophisticated campaign of subversion, disinformation & propaganda in an effort to break apart Europe: HR McMaster
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Greek volunteer firefighters take a brief power nap after an overnight struggle with the major wildfire in the northern suburbs of Athens.
#Greecewildfires
Mother bear and her two cubs go swimming in Lake Tahoe. 🐻 🌅
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After Brussels tragicomedy, Puigdemont is history. Not worth wasting anymore time to listen to what he says. Adiós loser.
UK's 30-year bond has now a higher yield than the Greek one.
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The great Tom Hanks has received Greek honorary citizenship per presidential decree.
Tom is married to Greek-American actress and spends most of his holidays at his Antiparos home in the Aegean.
Γειά σου Έλληνα!
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Surreal video from the ferry that evacuated hundreds of citizens from Limni on Evia island tonight.
/via #Greecewildfires
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Russian threats means that there can/should be no time gap between potential Sweden & Finland application to NATO and NATO's reply. NATO's reply to Sweden & Finland should come in hours after application, not even days.
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Medvedev says Russia may deploy nuclear weapons in the Baltic, if Sweden & Finland join NATO.
This is BS. Russia has already deployed tactical nuclear weapons near the Baltics. Nuclear deployment in Kaliningrad wouldn't change much.
#Greece PublicOrderMin Toskas confirms Paris attacker w Syrian passport was registered as refugee on Leros island in Oct. /via
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KKK congratulates Assange. twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/st
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This is the most idiotic declaration of Independence ever. Catalans will pay a heavy price for voting for these populists.
#Catalonia
More than 100k ppl in #HongKong hold candlelight vigil to mark 27th annivrsry of #Tiananmen Massacre. /ht
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Stay active Barack. The liberal world needs you.
As cute as it gets: Giant panda Tian Tian enjoys the snow at Smithsonian's Natl Zoo in Washington DC. #blizzard2016
Thousands of Catalans march in Barcelona against declaration of independence pscp.tv/w/bKiH7DFxTFFH #8Oct #Spain
I wish the Turkish people will soon re-establish the liberal democracy that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk envisaged, so that they will be able to celebrate #CumhuriyetBayramı freely.
Get your Republic back, Turkey!
RIP Samuel Paty. 🕯
A victim of jihadist terrorism, a hero of European culture and values.
Erdoğan is attacking Greece because Greek police is tear-gasing migrants at the border, but his own police is pepper-spraying women who just want to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay in Istanbul.
Huh...
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Turkish police attacked the #8M2020 demonstration in #Istanbul with pepper spray and started to arrest people.
#Turkey
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Turkish trolls have attacked and has suspended his account.
I suggest @TwitterSupport handles this case with special care and reinstates the account.
The plot thickens: Istanbul bombing suspect had phone calls with a Bahceli MHP party official.
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Better stick to your day job, Professor.
Honoured to be included in 's list of most influencial #EU journalists on Twitter. politi.co/2NtzBN5
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Çavuşoğlu: "...we do everything based on international law"
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The Turkish Foreign Minister writes an op-ed in a Greek newspaper. Cool.
Can you imagine the same thing happening in Turkey with the Greek FM? No f way.
Because Greece is the cradle of democracy and Turkey is a hybrid regime.
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My article titled “Our Preference Is
Diplomacy Without Preconditions” published in Kathimerini 
ekathimerini.com/256951/opinion
ekathimerini.com/256951/opinionPraying for Father Nicolas who got shot today in front of his church in Lyon and he's now fighting for his life in hospital. 🙏🏻
Ο Θεός και όλοι μας μαζί σου, Πάτερ.
[Photo from his Facebook account]
The story is much more interesting that what the piece describes. Special Counsel Mueller could be interested to cut a deal with Assange if he's willing to testify over the source of the DNC hacked material.
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Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for @JulianAssange and hand him over to the UK. What comes next? interc.pt/2LcoGGa by @ggreenwald
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BREAKING -- China's Xi holds video call with Macron and Scholz; Xi says China willing to coordinate with Europe on #Ukraine
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I consider the burkini ban totally ridiculous.
What's the legal differentiation with a female scuba diving suit?
Turkish idiotic militarists show off Turkey's war scenarios that include attacking Greek islands, while at the same time accuse Greece of 'militarizing' those islands.
Evangelia, an Athens city garbage collector, found a bag with 19,000 euros in cash & she handed the bag to city officials. The owner of the bag was found & wanted to compensate Evangelia with a finder's fee.
She told Mayor she can't accept the fee, 'it was her duty'.
#PhotoOfTheWeek: The full moon, known as the "Super Flower Moon", rises over the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, #Greece, on May 26.
📷 by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
#Greece Supreme Court bans halal and kosher animal slaughter methods.
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#ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟ -- Μακρόν: Θα αυξήσουμε τη στρατιωτική παρουσία μας στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο σε συνεργασία με την Ελλάδα — 'Το Όρουτς Ρέις στην ελληνική ΑΟΖ' (12/8/2020) [live blog] kappanews.gr/2020/08/12/to- 
#KappaNewsGr #ΑΟΖ #Ορουτς_Ρεις #Greece_Turkey #Oruc_Reis
#KappaNewsGr #ΑΟΖ #Ορουτς_Ρεις #Greece_Turkey #Oruc_Reis
Erdoğan's call for boycott of French products is a perfect validation of Greece's recent request for suspension of EU-Turkey customs union.
Macron-Mitsotakis meeting in Elysée.
Macron says French-Greek mutual defense agreement will not allow for any aggression in Eastern Mediterranean.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was a great European. Greeks will be forever greatful for his vital role in Greece's accession talks with the European Union in late 70s, then European Economic Communities. RIP.
MT @TomBurridgebbc Incredible scenes of protest in Caracas Venezuela...frustration w govt seems to hv hit boiling pt
Bombshell historical document over the Greek Civil War 1946~1949. The leaders of the rebel army and the Greek Communist Party declare to their Soviet comrades that a "a minimum goal" of the insurgency would be to "cut off a significant part" of the territory of Greece.
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Of possible interest to Greek followers. A letter from Nikos Zachariadis to the Soviet leadership, marking a crucial turning point in the Greek Civil War. From recently declassified Soviet archival records.
#Greece PM Mitsotakis announces Greek corporate tax rate lowered to 22% from 24%.
#EU 's brilliant reply to journo's Q on whether #Poland will leave the European Union. #ftw 🇪🇺 #EUruleoflaw
Firefighting aid sent to #Greece ⬇️
Arrived:
France: 82 firefighters, 2 planes
Cyprus: 40 ffs, 2 planes
Croatia: 1 plane
Ukraine: 100 ffs
Israel: 16 ffs
Sweden: 2 planes
Expected Saturday:
Romania: 112 ffs, 23 vehicles
Switzerland: 3 helicopters
/via #Greecewildfires
Boris Johnson has no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement & a no-deal #Brexit is his “central scenario”, EU diplomats have been told, amid hardening evidence in Westminster that the UK govt is expecting to crash out of the #EU. bit.ly/2OG6iHO via
Greece has a new PM that is not a populist vile bigot. Almost unbelievable.
BREAKING -- Mike Pence announces that Congress has certified the Electoral College vote declaring Joe Biden as the next President of the U.S.
#Greece Supreme Court accepts US Justice Dept's extradition request for Russian-born Alexander Vinnik, prime suspect in a $4bn bitcoin scam. Russia had tried to block the extradition.
#Greece WWII hero and former MEP Manolis Glezos passes away at 98.
Glezos took down the Nazi flag from the occupied Acropolis in May 1941, in one of the most symbolic moments of the Greek Resistance against the Axis.
RIP Greek hero.
¡Viva España!
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RT 🤩 Spanish police filmed singing and dancing to cheer up neighbourhood on coronavirus lockdown. Amazing! Video via 📍Algaida, Majorca twitter.com/adamarch83/sta
#Greece DefenseMin Kammenos files criminal lawsuit & asks for the arrest of the editor & 4 journalists of my newspaper Fileleftheros because he didn't like a frontpage story we ran on the dubious spending of #EU migration funds on Lesbos.
Greek rule of law
bit.ly/2OIOFmh
Τους πήραμε μια γραβάτα, μας πήρανε τα σώβρακα. Gοod diplomacy. #Πρέσπες
Enjoy Brussels dinner, Carles. I'm not sure about the food at Alcala-Meco.
Western Europeans are suddenly experiencing the dark side of Turkish chauvinism. Cypriots and Greeks have been experiencing it for decades.
The German admiral got sacked because he foolishly revealed what the majority of Germany’s political and military establishment think about Russia.
It's the fifth anniversary of #Greece's pro-EU movement, that rallied at Athens' Syntagma Square, against nationalist populism.
We stood on the right side of history.
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Hezbollah's Nasrallah uses Trump's stupid remarks to claim that "there are admissions by US officials that they created ISIS".
Great.
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#GE2017's most positive outcome: UKIP annihilated. Good riddance bigots.
After nine years of a bitter fight to keep Greece in the Eurozone, we Greeks can now honour and praise our heroes.
Leader of communist/stalinist KKE party inoculated by imperialist/capitalist Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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"It doesn't hurt."
Communist Party leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas gets vaccination shot at public hospital in Athens.
#Greece #Covid_19
A deer cools off in a small pond inside the recently burnt-out forest in Varymbobi, near Athens #Greece.
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#Greece poll (Marc-Ant1) sees overwhelming support, even among Syriza voters, for Greek-French defence pact.
RIP Olympia Dukakis.
A wonderful person, a great Greek. Αιωνία η μνήμη.
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Exclusive photo of Boris a few minutes ago.
Chaos is a Greek word, dear Tayyip. 😁
She was addressing some 2,000 people, wasn't some small talk.
Major investment in #Greece to be announced by Microsoft & Greek gov't on Monday ~Greek gov't official
#Afghanistan's new de facto leader Mullah Baradar issues congratulatory message to his fellow Taliban on the declaration of the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'.
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Sidelining the US.
The world will continue trading without an isolationist USA.
#Greece is in advanced talks with #France for the immediate purchase of 18 Dassault Rafale fighter jets, paper reports.
#EastMed #Oruc_Reis
People on Hydra island commemorate the great Leonard Cohen.
No problem amigos Españoles. After going thru the threats of my fellow Greeks in 2015, this is a walk in the park.
Viva España! Viva Europa!