Aside from Susana Sumelzo Jordan, the delegation included Pere Joan Pons Sampietro (PSOE MP), Ruben Moreno Palanques (PP MP), Jose Helen Sanchez Garcia (VOX MP), Antonio Gomez-Reino Varela (Podemos MP) and Mariona Illamola Dausa (independent MP). Mr. Varvitsiotis emphasised the need to enhance cooperation between the countries of the European South in order to address the difficulties facing Europe, in view from the Spanish Presidency of the European Council in the second 1 / 2 of 2023. “Europe has to pay greater attention to the Mediterranean”, he pointedly stated, observing that our common shared goal is to deepen Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. During its visit to Athens and in the framework of enhancing parliamentary diplomacy between the two countries, the particular delegation also held a number of meetings with members of the Greek Parliament. Alternate Minister of International Affairs for European Matters, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis met today, Thursday January 12, using a delegation of the Spanish Joint Congress- Senate Committee pertaining to EU Affairs headed simply by its Chairwoman Susana Sumelzo Jordan. The meeting focused on developments in the Eastern Mediterranean sea and Western Balkans, the war in Ukraine, migration, energy, environment, tourism, and European economic governance. The Alternative Minister briefed the abordnung thoroughly on the escalation associated with Turkish provocative conduct and Ankara’s revisionism, underscoring that will non-compliance with the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) threatens the balance of the Eastern Mediterranean, NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION, and Europe.
