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The Greek Current

Souda Bay takes center stage amid regional instability

The wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East have highlighted not only Greece’s role, but specifically the important role the naval base at Souda Bay - often described as the “crown jewel” of US-Greece military cooperation - plays in the Eastern Mediterranean. As Souda Bay takes center stage amid this regional instability, Steven Tagle joins Thanos Davelis to look at how the oldest US military installation in Greece is not only strengthening the NATO alliance and contributing to regional security and stability, but is also providing Greece and the US with opportunities to deepen their decades-long security cooperation, giving meaning to the catchphrase “Stronger Together”.

Read Steven Tagle’s latest here: Amid regional instability, the oldest US military installation in Greece gets an upgrade

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Greece-China relations ‘mutually beneficial,’ PM says

Greece sending humanitarian aid to Gaza on Monday

Greece working with UN to send aid to Gaza

Christodoulides discusses humanitarian corridor to Gaza with US official

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