On Turkey: The Full Position
Decades of tension have not resolved the maritime boundary disputes, have not stopped Turkish overflights of Greek airspace and have not produced security for Greek citizens in border regions. What they have produced is an arms race that Greece can ill afford and a relationship permanently on the edge of miscalculation. Armed Turkish F-16s entered Greek national airspace in October 2025 and the Athens Flight Information Region in September 2025.
AURIO will pursue Greece’s maritime rights and territorial sovereignty firmly, consistently and through every available legal and diplomatic mechanism, including the International Court of Justice and EU frameworks. We will not make concessions on Greek sovereign territory.
But we will engage Turkey in the language of business, economic cooperation and mutual interest wherever that engagement serves Greek citizens. Economic interdependence reduces the risk of military conflict. A Turkish investor in northern Greece and a Greek exporter to Istanbul both have an interest in stability.
On NATO and European Security: The Full Position
Greece provides NATO with one of its most strategically significant positions in the Eastern Mediterranean. It bears costs in migration pressure, military spending and the strategic burdens of frontier status that are disproportionate to the benefits it receives in return.
Greece is a NATO member and will remain one. AURIO will not walk away from these commitments. But AURIO will push relentlessly for European solutions to European security questions. The EU’s emerging strategic autonomy agenda is the right direction.
On the Alexandroupolis LNG terminal: Greece hosts a facility that supplies nine countries with energy. That strategic contribution deserves strategic recognition in the form of EU investment, infrastructure development and formal community benefit obligations for the host region.
On Israel and Gaza: The Full Position
The Greek government has remained largely silent on Gaza while expanding military cooperation with Israel. Greece and Israel have strengthened ties through formal agreements, joint military exercises and a defence agreement estimated at 3.5 billion dollars.
AURIO takes this position without equivocation. We recognise the State of Palestine. We support a two state solution based on internationally recognised borders. We call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and for full humanitarian access to Gaza. We support the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and expect all states to comply with its decisions.
AURIO will suspend all military collaboration with Israel for as long as the conflict in Gaza continues without a negotiated resolution that protects Palestinian civilian life and establishes a credible political pathway to Palestinian statehood. No new arms contracts. No joint military exercises. No participation in trilateral military frameworks that include Israel as a partner.
This is the position that Spain has taken, implementing a total arms embargo through the Arms Trade Treaty. It is the position that Ireland, Norway, Slovenia and a growing number of EU member states have taken. It is rooted in a consistent application of the same international legal principles that Greece invokes when defending its own sovereignty against Turkish revisionism.
Greece’s strategic relationship with Israel on energy, diplomatic dialogue and non military matters can continue. We are not calling for rupture. We are calling for consistency.
On the EU-Mercosur Deal
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement sacrifices European agriculture to serve European industrial exports. Germany’s automotive industry gains tariff free access to Latin American markets. In exchange, European farmers absorb 99,000 tonnes of South American beef, 60,000 tonnes of duty-free rice and increased imports of sugar, poultry and honey produced under lower environmental and labour standards.
Greece is directly affected. Greek rice production (240,000 tons annually, third largest in the EU) and honey production (25,000 tons, 10% of EU output) face direct competition from imports that undercut them on price because they are produced under regulations that would be illegal in Europe. This is not free trade. It is regulatory arbitrage dressed as diplomacy.
The Greek government voted in favour of the deal. Greek farmers blocked the Athens-Thessaloniki motorway on January 8, 2026. The European Parliament froze the deal on January 21, 2026 and referred it to the Court of Justice.
AURIO opposes the EU-Mercosur deal. Principled consistency means applying the same standards to trade that we apply to domestic production.
On Ukraine and Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a violation of international law and the principles of national sovereignty that Greece depends on for its own security. AURIO supports Ukraine’s right to defend its territory and the EU sanctions regime against Russia.
We also support a negotiated diplomatic resolution as the only realistic path to ending the war. Military escalation without a political horizon serves no one. Greece, with its own experience of great power manipulation, has a particular interest in ensuring that any resolution respects Ukrainian sovereignty.
On Migration
The migration situation at Evros is a European border management problem being handled at Greek expense. The EU’s rhetoric on burden sharing has consistently outpaced its financial and operational reality.
AURIO will demand full EU funding for border management in Evros. We will push for a genuine European migration and asylum system that distributes both costs and responsibilities across member states. Migration policy in Evros will be conducted in full compliance with European and international human rights law. That standard is not optional and Greece’s reputation in Europe depends on it.
The Single Sentence
Greece is a European sovereign state. It will act like one.