Cyprus expects natural gas from its seas to become commercially available by 2027, its energy minister said on Friday, adding that Europe’s energy crisis had put a renewed focus on how to expedite development of reserves in the east Mediterranean.
The UK-based instrumental ambient jazz act Portico Quartet is performing at Athens’ Piraeus 117 Academy venue as part of an ongoing tour.
Footage has emerged showing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying he “stood up and said to Erdogan … in your face,” after the Turkish president’s comments about Greece at a dinner for the leaders attending the first meeting of the European Political Community on Thursday.
“The Mediterranean should be a sea of peace and prosperity and not a field to instrumentalize the human pain from Turkey,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told her Maltese counterpart, George Vella, on Friday in the Maltese capital, Valleta.
European Union leaders struggled Friday to bridge significant differences over a natural gas price cap as winter approaches and Russia’s war in Ukraine fuels a major energy crisis, driving up prices for consumers and businesses.
The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece has once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route, the risks migrants and refugees are willing to take and the political infighting that has thwarted a safe European response to people fleeing war, poverty and climate change.
A day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a thinly-veiled threat to take military action against Greece, Athens on Friday urged Ankara to return to talks to resolve differences.
Supermarkets in Greece on Wednesday pledged to present by the end of the month a basket of 50 different products necessary for a household’s living for which they will seek to contain any price increases.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about improving bilateral ties and he repeated Ankara’s willingness to do its part to peacefully resolve the war in Ukraine, Erdogan’s office said on Friday.
A new Covid-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will likely limit booster uptake.