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Allocations to EU urban areas between 2014 and 2020 amount to approximately 111 billion euro, Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu on Friday told a press conference delivered jointly with Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration Vasile-Daniel Suciu, at the end of the informal meeting of the urban development ministers, organized by the Ministry for Regional Developme

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is attending the 6th South EU Summit, held in Valletta, Malta on Friday, where the government leaders of Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain will convene to discuss regional and global issues.

A Turkish aid agency on June 13 donated 200 wheelchairs in Pakistan.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that any Cypriot deal for oil and gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean that excludes Turkey is "invalid," according to reports Friday.

The United States has accused Iran of attacking the tankers, reported BTA.

A Hellenic Chamber of Hotels survey shows that the prospects for tourism this year are fairly downbeat, with 40 percent of hoteliers expecting occupancy rates to drop by up to 16 percent and 10 percent projecting that prices will be reduced by up to 13 percent.

Albanian police said on Wednesday they had broken up a criminal gang trafficking Syrian, Turkish and Iraqi migrants to western Europe from Greece and had arrested eight people including the Turkish ringleader.

Greece's jobless rate rose to 19.2 percent in January-to-March from 18.7 percent in the fourth quarter, data by the country's statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

The recovery in Greece's housing market gained speed in the first quarter, central bank data showed, with an expanding economy and growing foreign interest likely to keep the uptrend intact.

On average, Greek enterprises are forced to wait almost four months before they collect their dues from the state, which is by far the longest period among European Union member-states.