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Wednesday, July 17

EU sanctions Turkey over its drilling in Cyprus exclusive economic zone

Some of the sanctions look pretty to serious to me. It's a lengthy report, which includes the reaction from Greece, but here are the opening passages:

July 16, 2019
SouthFront

On July 15 the European Union’s foreign ministers decided to impose sanctions on Turkey over its drilling activities within the territorial waters of member state Cyprus.
The EU maintains that those activities are illegal.
The sanctions include freezing most high-level contacts with Turkey and cutting the flow of funds to the country. No sanctions that target specific Turkish companies involved in the offshore drilling in the eastern Mediterranean were introduced.
[Pundita note: The individual sanctions are being prepared. See the entire report.]
The decision includes a freeze of pre-accession assistance to the tune of 146 million euros, the suspension of negotiations on the Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement and a halting of high-level dialogues in the fields of economy, energy, transport, and agriculture – as well as the suspension of lending activities of the European Investment Bank.
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