We are witnessing the development of a new energy and geopolitical landscape for the region
The US has developed a comprehensive energy policy that includes southeast Europe and the Mediterranean. This was the subject at the two-day high level meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation( P-TEC) last week in Athens, placing Greece at the centre of it.
This was the sixth such annual meeting, but it was the participation of three senior members of President Trump’s administration that made it so special. They were Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary and chairman of the National Energy Council Doug Burgum, and Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas, but also US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. Other American attendees included officials from the US International Development Finance Corporation and the US Export-Import Bank. Not even Brussels can boast to have attracted so many senior American officials at the same time.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis correctly observed that “the presenc
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