Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades today commented that the reunification of the island will have a positive effect on the entire Eastern Mediterranean region, in his address at a ceremony with the new High Commissioner of the Republic of Singapore Leong Horn Kee.

Today brought a nationwide rolling power strike across Greece, in response to the government's plan to privatize the state's major PPC electricity company.

Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Yiannis Maniatis announced Greece's offshore hydrocarbon exploration plan permits for Crete and the Ionian Sea, in London today.