Search Results for: Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades
Egypt expects $1.5 billion in aid by year-end; President in Greece for energy
December 8th, 2015
Egypt expects to receive $1.5 billion from the World Bank and African Development Bank by year-end to support the budget and could discuss potential IMF financing once parliament convenes, International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr said. Egypt is implementing a ...
Med gas pipe viable: Israel, Greece, Cyprus to hold second trilateral summit
December 5th, 2016
Energy issues and emergency rescue cooperation will top the agenda when leaders of Israel, Greece and Cyprus meet this week in Jerusalem for their second trilateral summit in less than a year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Greek Prime Minister ...
Greece woos Egyptian leader after huge gas discovery
December 9th, 2015
Greece‘s political and business leaders promised to expand trade deals with Egypt during meetings Tuesday with the country’s leader, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, following a massive offshore natural gas discovery in the southern Mediterranean. “There are enormous opportunities for cooperation ...
A multibillion-dollar natural gas boom may reunify Cyprus
January 12th, 2017
A potential energy boom in Cyprus could spur a deal to reunify the ethnically-divided island after more than 40 years. A breakthrough may come at a United Nations-brokered multilateral summit in Geneva this week. The island nation has discovered ...
Energy giants to begin talks for Cyprus gas
December 22nd, 2016
Cyprus Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Wednesday that Italy’s ENI, France’s Total, and Qatar Petroleum with American ExxonMobil – headed by US president-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson – are the energy firms that ...
Cyprus to supply gas to Egypt; new agreement signed
September 1st, 2016
Cyprus and Egypt signed an agreement on Wednesday creating the legal framework for energy companies to go ahead with their own commercial talks on the transport of natural gas from Cyprus to Egypt via a sub-sea pipeline. The agreement ...
Israel, Greece and Cyprus to explore gas pipeline to Europe
January 29th, 2016
Greece, Israel and Cyprus will explore the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline to Europe, tapping huge gas reserves discovered in the eastern Mediterranean in recent years, leaders of the three countries said on Thursday. Israel has reported ...
Greece, Cyprus and Egypt end trilateral talks with broad declaration
December 10th, 2015
The third round of trilateral talks between Greece, Cyprus and Egypt concluded in Athens on Wednesday with the signing of a declaration in which the three countries agreed to work more closely on security and energy issues. Greek Prime ...
Greek debt crisis: Where do other eurozone countries stand?
July 9th, 2015
Eurozone leaders are back in Brussels to discuss how to deal with the growing debt crisis in Greece. Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected the terms of an international bailout on Sunday. Although some countries are keen to strike a compromise, ...
Cyprus lifts all capital controls as banks recover
April 6th, 2015
Cyprus is lifting the last remaining capital controls it imposed on its banking system during the financial crisis of 2013. Cyprus was the only crisis-hit eurozone country to restrict capital transfers, as it faced a run on the banks. ...
