Brussels, 23/07/2020 (Agence Europe) – The French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Thursday 23 July that “at the end of August or early September” that a summit of the southern EU countries would be held, the Med 7 (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus), being of the opinion that Europe should “reflect deeply on security issues in the Mediterranean”. On the occasion of the visit to France of his Cypriot counterpart, Níkos Anastasiádis, Mr Macron once again denounced Turkey's violation of Greek and Cypriot sovereignty in the eastern Mediterranean. “It is not acceptable that the maritime space of a Member State of our Union should be violated or threatened. Those who are a part of it must be punished”, he said. Mr Anastasiádis also called upon the EU to move from declarations of solidarity to taking action. (CG)