Search Results for: Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades
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 ...
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 ...
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 and Cyprus agree gas field cooperation
July 25th, 2016
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Nicos Anastasiades agreed to cooperate over the neighboring Yishai and Aphrodite gas fields. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades met yesterday to discuss a wide range of ...
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 ...
Cyprus, Greece, Egypt agree to boost economic and political cooperation
April 29th, 2015
The leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to augment economic and political cooperation among their respective nations, underlining their commitment to peace and stability in a troubled region. “Today we have reaffirmed that the trilateral dialogue ...
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. ...
ECB Warns Cyprus as Government Pushes for Georghadji’s Dismissal
March 16th, 2015
The European Central Bank warned Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to respect central-bank independence after the country’s government started proceedings to dismiss Governor Chrystalla Georghadji. A year after previous Cypriot central-bank chief Panicos Demetriades resigned his post following months of ...
