Energy issues dominated talks during Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ first official visit to Qatar on Monday. According to government sources, the visit is indicative of the strong interest of both sides in further enhancing bilateral relations, especially during the current time of regional instability and energy crisis.
Foreign media are tracking a story on the Cypriot government’s aspirations to obtain Iron Dome, Israel’s field-tested defense system, but news and sources piling up over the weekend suggest the island’s neighbor warming up to Turkey and the war in Ukraine could tell a more complicated story.
Subsidizing the cost of electricity remains the government’s top priority. However, the uncertainty of global energy markets makes the cost of that measure a speculative exercise, which limits the margin for other support measures that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis would like to announce in his September 10 keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair.
Greece has sent two Canadair CL-415 fire-fighting aircraft to help Portugal cope with wildfires.
Several dozen Palestinians flew to Cyprus on Monday from an airport in southern Israel as part of a pilot program to allow Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad.
The Eni-Total consortium made an important discovery of natural gas in Cyprus’s Block 6.
An increasing number of people are looking to avoid the crowds as inbound tourism smashes news records this year.
Greece’s socialist PASOK opposition party has formally requested that Parliament set up an investigative committee to look into the wiretapping scandal targeting its leader Nikos Androulakis.
Emergency crews were on Monday working to contain a wildfire burning through pine forest near the village of Kritinia on the western coast of the Dodecanese island of Rhodes.
Greece’s socialist opposition PASOK party has submitted a formal request for the convening this week of the Parliament’s Committee on Institutions and Transparency over the tapping by the state intelligence of its leader Nikos Androulakis.