Malta's Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Joe Mizzi hosted Marios Demetriades, Minister for Communications and Works of Cyprus and Shipping minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis,  for the third tripartite meeting with the scope of consolidating a common position on maritime affairs, both at international and regional level.

The port of Lavrio has become a major attraction for many companies as the completion of the new modern port station and the port works, the close distance from the Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" and the easy access to "Attiki Odos" along with the imminent extension of the urban railway have offered extrovertive characteristics aiming at the creation of additional facilities to the port and the economic development of the wider area.

The prosecutor of the supreme court has ordered preliminary inquests in to the five mayors that are refusing a check on the legitimacy of tenure of municipal employees.