A liquefied natural gas tanker that has been docked at Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass export terminal in Louisiana since early February is nearly loaded, according to gas supply data, and preparing join a stream of US LNG tankers heading to Europe.
Greece will support any European Union line on sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, including measures to cut off Moscow from the global SWIFT payments system, a senior government official told Reuters on Saturday.
Greece is willing to “take a number of people in” from Ukraine if needed and will support the Ukrainians directly, with “technical and humanitarian help toward Poland and other countries,” Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis told Skai TV on Saturday.
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his “full support and solidarity” to Ukraine and its people in a call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday and reiterated Greece’s support for “tough sanctions” against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Cyprus has not opposed proposals to cut Russia off from the SWIFT global payment system, Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday.
Greek households are staring at a new wave of price hikes, whose size and duration will mostly depend on the war in Ukraine.
Greece has received the Eurogroup’s approval to repay the final tranches of bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) early along with a small part of bilateral loans from its euro zone partners, its finance minister said on Friday.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has put combatants and their commanders on notice that he is monitoring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Brussels has given its approval for the completion of the Ethniki Asfalistiki takeover by the CVC Capital Partners investment fund.
As Russia’s incursion into Ukraine continued on Friday, reaching Kyiv, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis said that “Greece has always been on the right side of history and will be now.”