Athens and Nicosia are raising alarm bells as Turkey continues to dispute Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and, in particular, its rights to hydrocarbon exploration in Block 6, which was recently licensed to a consortium of Italy’s Eni and France’s Total. Source Ekathimerini
A gendarmerie crew was the target of two Molotov cocktails this Monday evening in Villefontaine (Isère). For Patrick Nicole-Williams, the mayor of Villefontaine, the gendarmes have fallen into an ambush. The soldiers were called to intervene in the Muissiat district around 11 p.m. Source Actu17
he European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people’s data. Source ABC
Tens of thousands of Bulgarians kept protesting for the fifth day in a row on July 13, demanding the immediate resignation of the government and the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, accusing them of widespread corruption and shielding the interests of alleged criminals who, they claim, control the state authorities Source BNE
