24/08/2020 (Agence Europe) – The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced on Monday 17 August that the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean would be discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the European Council on 24 and 25 September in Brussels. “All options will be on the table”, he warned on 19 August in conclusions published at the end of the European leaders' videoconference, adding that it was “urgent” to defuse “growing” tensions. Tensions between Turkey and its Greek and Cypriot neighbours escalated in August with the deployment of a Turkish seismic research vessel in the Greek exclusive economic zone. The subject will also be discussed at the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on 27-28 August in Berlin. See Mr Michel’s conclusions after the video conference of 19 August: https://bit.ly/2YsrNhu (CG)