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The European Union toughened its stance towards Turkey on Thursday and warned that sanctions will be discussed at the December EU Summit if Ankara continues its provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell, participating in a...

Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot self-declared government announced on Tuesday that they will open the beach town of Varosha or Varosia on Cyprus, which has remained empty and abandoned since the illegal invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974. Ersin...

Greece accused Turkey on Tuesday of being a troublemaker, escalating provocations in the eastern Mediterranean, following Ankara's decision to extended its energy exploration through its ship the Oruc Reis until September 12. "Turkey continues to faithfully fulfill the role of...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Tuesday that the current situation in the East Med, where Greek and Turkish navies are gathered, is "like playing with fire." Speaking after a meeting in Athens with Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and...

Greek foreign minister George Katrougalos said on Thursday that Turkey should not be excluded from the energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean during his meeting with his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the Turkish resort of Antalya. Speaking at a joint...

Greece will definitely benefit from the recent agreement with Israel and Cyprus for the construction of the East Med gas pipeline, according to a report in the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. The proposed pipeline will transport natural gas from the...

Greece, Italy, and Cyprus have reached an agreement with Israel to lay a pipeline connecting the Jewish state’s gas reserves to the three countries, a report in the Times of Israel says. The paper says that the East Med Pipeline...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said that the pipeline project discussed between Israel, Greece and Cyprus to feed 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe would not contribute to peace and stability in the region. In a...

A decision on the viability of the East Med pipeline will be taken when the leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Israel hold a summit meeting in Jerusalem in December, Israeli Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz...

The importance of the implementation of a natural gas corridor between Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy (East Med Corridor) for EU's energy security was discussed at the meeting that took place in Brussels between Commissioner for Energy Completion Maro Sefkovitc...

Turkey will “soon” resume its seismic and drilling activities under the Eastern Mediterranean, according to Fatih Donmez, its Energy Minister.

Turkey is "threatening peace, security and stability" in the Mediterranean region, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias charged on Friday during an official visit to Cyprus. Following a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, Dendias said that Ankara on the...

The Naval forces of Greece and Cyprus will join those of Egypt, France, and the United Arab Emirates in conducting a large-scale sea and air exercise off the Mediterranean coast of Alexandria, Egypt starting Monday, November 30. The joint exercise...

Geoffrey Pyatt, the United States' ambassador to Athens, had some strong admonitions regarding Russian influence in the troubled Eastern Mediterranean in his remarks during the online Thessaloniki Summit on Thursday. Apropos the recent Athens visit of Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the recent accord with Egypt on maritime boundaries on Wednesday, stressing that the agreement is a good illustration of how other regional problems can be solved. Mitsotakis met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...