U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited ministers from more than 60 countries to Washington on July 16 for a sum...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited ministers from more than 60 countries to Washington on July 16 for a summit focused on what the Trump administration calls the "resurgence of international far-left terrorism." Greece is among the countries invited. According to To Vima, Greece received invitations for both Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis and Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis. Chrysochoidis will not attend due to scheduling conflicts, but Gerapetritis's participation remains on the table. The summit, first revealed by the Washington Post, is part of the Trump administration's push to shift U.S. counterterrorism priorities away from Islamist threats and far-right violence toward what it describes as the far-left extremist threat. The State Department has argued this is an "old threat reemerging" with increasingly strong cross-border ties. The initiative has already drawn skepticism from European allies. Several European diplomats told the Washington Post they do not consider far-left terrorism a security priority in their countries, with one remarking bluntly, "We don't have an antifascist terrorist organization in our country." Greece has a direct stake in this debate. Last November, the State Department added two Greek organizations to its foreign terrorist organization list: "Armed Proletarian Justice" and "Revolutionary Class Self-Defense." A senior Greek government official told the New York Times at the time that both groups are considered small and of limited activity, but Athens chose not to publicly push back to avoid friction with the Trump administration. Antifa sits at the center of the broader U.S. strategy. Trump designated it a domestic terrorist organization by executive order last September, following the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, even though Antifa has no central leadership or unified structure. U.S. officials who spoke to the Post expressed concerns that counterterrorism tools could be used to expand surveillance of domestic activists, and that a future Democratic administration could turn the same tools against conservative groups. The White House rejected those concerns, sayi...