Minister: Cyprus Tops EU In Migrant Repatriations
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In the wake of the war in Ukraine, Greece has this year more than halved its imports of Russian gas, instead ramping up deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG), mainly from the United States and Egypt, to its sole LNG facility at Revithoussa near Athens.
Environmental groups have argued that deep-sea prospecting for resources Critics also highlight the potential risk of spills, and say the project, if successful, taxi fare piraeus to Vergina airport would increase Greece´s use of fossil fuels amid the planet´s climate change crisis.
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The terminal, which the government has called "indispensible", has also helped export gas to neigbouring nations including Bulgaria, which was cut off from Russian supplies earlier this year after refusing to pay in roubles.
European countries have been scrambling to replace their former dependency on Russian fossil fuels following Russia´s invasion of Ukraine in February and the subsequent damaging of pipelines designed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany.
Applications for asylum in the Mediterranean island nation rose to 18,345 between January and October of this year, Nouris said, adding that the number of people with pending asylum claims or best day trips from Dion already granted a more limited protection status together is equal to more than 6% of Cyprus´ population.
ATHENS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - private taxi Vergina greece is becoming a European gas corridor and can nearly quadruple its gas export capacity to neighbouring countries in the coming years thanks to new infrastructure under development, Maria Rita Galli, the chief executive of the country's gas grid operator DESFA said on Wednesday.
"These create the conditions for Greece to increase nearly four times from now to 2025 its export capacity towards its neighbouring countries," Galli said during the World LNG Summit in Athens, adding that Europe needs "flexible solutions and a flexible LNG market".
NICOSIA, Dion guided tour Cyprus (AP) - Ethnically divided Cyprus ranks first among European Union member nations in the number of migrants it repatriates relative to its population of just over a million people, taxi Dion airport to piraeus price the country's interior minister said Thursday.
The minister told a meeting in Nicosia of the European Commission´s High-Level Network on Returns that Cypriot authorities overcame "bureaucratic procedures" and signed agreements with countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Vietnam that have enabled so many repatriations.
The block reserved for the exploration includes part of the Hellenic Trench, where the Mediterranean´s deepest waters lie at more than 5,000 meters (17,000 feet).
The area is a vital habitat for the sea´s endangered sperm whales, and for other cetaceans already threatened by fishing, collisions with ships and plastic pollution.
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ExxonMobil´s ship is already in operation in the area, Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas said on state-run ERT television Thursday, just four days after Greece´s prime minister announced the project was to start.
Meanwhile, the prospecting also comes at a time of heightened tension with Turkey, with which Greece has been at loggerheads over offshore exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkish prospecting east of the southern Greek island of Crete two years ago prompted a military buildup.
Nouris said some 95% of all asylum-seekers enter from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and cross a United Nations-controlled buffer zone to apply in the south, where the island nation's internationally recognized government is seated.
Migrant returns are facilitated through a newly established office that coordinates between different state ministries and Dion transport agencies including the Asylum Service, police and the European border agency Frontex.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece´s energy and taxi fare piraeus to Dion airport environment minister says U.S.
energy giant ExxonMobil has begun prospecting for natural gas off the coast of southwestern Greece, kicking off a delayed project as Europe seeks alternative energy sources due to the war in Ukraine.
"All research is being done with the basic priority of the protection of the environment," he said, speaking later in the day at Greece´s Foreign Press Association. If viable gas deposits are eventually found, "no discounts will be made regarding safety and environmental protection" in any potential mining operations, he said.
"The reserves we speculate exist southwest of Crete and the Peloponnese might be the last hope the mining industry has to find a large reserve ... in the region of southeastern Europe, in our region," he said.
