{"id":51999,"date":"2025-08-26T15:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?p=51999"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:12:25","slug":"scheseis-elladas-ipa-synopsi-iouliou-apo-to-diatlantiko-periskopio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/us-greek-relations-july-brief-by-the-transatlantic-periscope-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Greek relations \u2014 July brief by the Transatlantic Periscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>The Transatlantic Periscope is an interactive, multimedia tool that brings together expert commentary, high-quality media coverage, official policy documents, quantitative data, social media posts, and gray literature. It will provide on a monthly basis a summary of the most important news concerning the Greek-US relations, as reflected in the media. Below you will find an overview for July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s nominee for the next U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, fielded questions at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on July 9. The Committee has approved the nomination of Kimberly Guilfoyle to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, with 13 to 9 in favor of advancing Guilfoyle\u2019s nomination. The nomination now heads to the full Senate for a final confirmation vote.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vassilis Nedos (Kathimerini), the U.S. has increased its use of key military facilities in Greece, including the strategically located Souda Bay and the northern port of Alexandroupoli, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East and shifting priorities in Washington. For Athens, the expanding US interest in Souda and Alexandroupoli reaffirms the long-term strategic importance of Greek territory in American defense planning.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek government expressed hesitation and caution to comment on the EU-U.S. trade deal on tariffs reached between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump on July 27. Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, speaking in the Hellenic Parliament, outlined the government&#8217;s thoughts on this critical issue. He noted that it puts an end to months of uncertainty following Trump&#8217;s election and the &#8220;back and forth&#8221; with the tariffs, and that is a positive thing. He stressed, however, that the government is studying the agreement to see how it can better manage the problems that will arise in areas of Greece&#8217;s commercial interest.<\/p>\n<p>More at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transatlanticperiscope.org\/relationship\/GR\"><strong>https:\/\/transatlanticperiscope.org\/relationship\/GR#<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transatlantic Periscope is an interactive, multimedia tool that brings together expert commentary, high-quality media coverage, official policy documents, quantitative data, social media posts, and gray literature. It will provide on a monthly basis a summary of the most important news concerning the Greek-US relations, as reflected in the media. Below you will find an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":52001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"program":[20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52002,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51999\/revisions\/52002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51999"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=51999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}