TotalEnergies on Thursday announced its decision to withdraw from two hydrocarbon exploration blocks near Crete – the block of Western Crete and that of Southwest Crete – after the completion of surveys in those areas, saying it has informed the authorities and its partners of its decision.
Until 2019 he was a high-ranking CIA officer, responsible for special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia. He was born in Athens, Greece into a Greek-American and Jewish family. Pretty soon the family had to return to the US, where Polymeropoulos’ father became a Rutgers and Cornell University professor.
Despite the challenges from the health and energy crises, “the alignment of economic growth with our ambitious goals for the climate remains the focus of Greece’s strategic priorities,” Finance Minister Christos Staikouras told the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action online meeting on Tuesday.
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Cyprus is expected to return to fiscal surpluses by 2024 while public debt will return to a downward trajectory, following the spike in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund said in its Fiscal Monitor issued on Wednesday.