EU leaders on Aug. 19 reaffirmed their opposition to Turkey’s “illegal” drilling activities offshore Cyprus and agreed that “all options will be on the table” at the next European Council summit in September. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Tensions in the East Mediterranean have increased in recent weeks with Turkey both extending the drilling schedule for its drillship Yavuz offshore Cyprus and saying it was resuming surveying activities in disputed maritime areas. “We are increasingly concerned about the growing tensions and stressed the urgent need to de-escalate,” the Council said in its conclusions following the meeting of EU leaders. “We expressed our full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus and recalled and reaffirmed our previous conclusions on the […]