“Today (12.03), the Permanent Representatives Committee approved the agreement with the European Parliament on a draft directive establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning.

The Council today adopted a regulation on guidelines for the deployment and interoperability of telecommunications infrastructure projects of common interest in the field of trans-European telecommunications networks. Today's decision follows an agreement reached at first reading with the European Parliament which held its vote at the plenary session of 26 February 2014.

In the opening session of the High Level Conference on Coastal and Maritime Tourism that was held today (10.3.2014) at the Acropolis Museum, in the framework of the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Tourism, Greece’s Minister of Tourism,  Olga Kefalogianni, referred to the challenges and opportunities arising from “Coastal and Maritime Tourism” for the EU countries.