As Samaras noted, International Law “is not selective” and cannot be invoked “whenever it suits us or with a time delay.” His comments were widely interpreted as a direct message to the government, emphasising that this principle must guide Greek foreign policy consistently.

He linked the issue to Greece’s own national concerns, referring explicitly to Cyprus, to threats against the Greek islands, to Thrace and to wider questions of sovereignty in the Aegean. For Samaras, international developments are inseparable from the challenges Greece faces in its own neighbourhood.

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