Ambassador Pyatt: Alexandroupolis has become strategically important
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U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday underscored the United States’ strategic commitment to northern Greece in statements to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency while visiting the port of Alexandroupolis for the final phase of the inter-allied military exercise Defender-Europe 2021.
VIPs visited Alexandroupolis on Friday for the start of the port authority’s support of the exercise and the hosting of U.S. forces at the port.
Asked by
AMNA about the significance of the use of the Alexandroupolis port by US forces in actions such as that on Friday, as well as his own frequent visits to the region, for bilateral Greek-U.S. relations, Pyatt said that “this is a proof of our strategic commitment to northern Greece and of Alexandroupolis’ role as a military logistics hub, an energy hub, a regional access hub and a transport hub.”
Greece Documents Largest Drop in Carbon Emissions in EU for 2020
Agios Dimitrios Power Plant in Greece. Credit: Thpanagos , CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia Commons
Greece is the European Union (EU) member country with the most significant annual drop in carbon emissions according to Eurostat data released on Friday.
Eurostat’s report shows that carbon emissions fell in all EU countries, but Greece had the largest decrease of all, with a decrease of 18.7% in their emissions last year.
EU emissions decrease by 10% overall
” width=”1080″>The “European Green Deal” is an EU-wide policy whose aim is to get the entirety of Europe to be climate neutral by 2050. The more immediate goal of the European Green Deal is to decrease emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to levels recorded in 1990.
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Ambassador Pyatt’s Remarks at
2021 New Year’s Reception
Καλησπέρα σας! Thank you, Niko. I want to begin my remarks this evening by expressing my heartfelt appreciation to Minister Georgiadis for bringing us together tonight. While I miss seeing this ballroom filled with friends and colleagues like in years past, I want to thank you all for connecting to us virtually to celebrate the new year.
Tonight, as we continue to work through the many challenges the pandemic presents, including today’s difficult news about a further lockdown, I want to take a moment to highlight some of the opportunities I see to strengthen and deepen the alliance between the United States and Greece in this Greek bicentennial year that my friend Archbishop Elpidophoros described so eloquently.