Greece Vows to Block Turkey from EU Defense Program Over War Threat

Greece has vowed to artifact Turkey from joining a cardinal European Union defence program, citing Ankara's long-standing menace of warfare against Athens arsenic a superior obstacle to its inclusion.

The steadfast stance comes conscionable a time aft Turkey formally applied to articulation the EU's SAFE program, an inaugural designed to fortify the continent's defence industry.

"We volition not judge a state that threatens warfare connected an EU subordinate state," a Greek authoritative told authorities broadcaster ERT.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated that Greece would artifact Turkey’s inclusion unless it withdraws its casus belli—an authoritative parliamentary declaration threatening warfare if Greece extends its territorial waters successful the Aegean.

Foreign Minister Georgios Gerapetritis echoed that position.

While Greece cannot formally veto the programme itself, it tin artifact the required bilateral statement betwixt the EU and Turkey.
An EU Commission spokesperson, Thomas Renier, confirmed that safeguards beryllium wrong the regularisation to support the information interests of immoderate subordinate state.