Energy plans advance amid caution

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Greece is moving cautiously to easiness tensions with Turkey while advancing cardinal vigor projects, amid sensitivities triggered by its caller maritime spatial plan. 

Athens views Ankara’s effect so acold arsenic “measured” and aims to sphere the fragile connection channels built successful caller years. A bilateral summit betwixt Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being planned earlier summertime recess, alongside ongoing governmental dialog led by lawman overseas ministers. 

At the aforesaid time, Greece remains committed to processing offshore wind parks successful the Aegean and Ionian seas and to the Greece-Cyprus energy interconnection project. However, it seeks to debar giving Ankara the content of assertive unilateral action. Announcements connected offshore vigor projects are expected within the adjacent quarter. 

Officials judge that not overdramatizing the energy nexus with Cyprus could assistance support calm, arsenic Athens besides awaits clearer signals from Washington astir US argumentation successful the Eastern Mediterranean under the Trump administration. 

Managing timing and optics appears important arsenic Athens tries to beforehand strategic goals without reigniting disputes with Ankara, which continues to contention maritime zones based connected long-standing, if legally tenuous, claims.