Athens breaks EU ranks to side with US and Saudi Arabia in green shipping row

Greek governments have historically been aligned with US politics (and therefore Israel) because the US helps keep Turkish interests in check.

No surprises from a pretty far-right, capitalism-first current government

„National interests first“ will be written on the EUs tombstone.

This tracks with some comments I've seen recently about how petrostates (Saudi Arabia, russia, but also US, Iran, Venezuela) are going crazy at the decline of oil dependence and trying to do everything they can to delay it.