Cyprus Mail31 Jul 2026

Cyprus ‘will have had a say’ in BG Group sale

The Cypriot government “will have had a say” in the sale of the BG Group’s Cyprus unit from British multinational corporation Royal Dutch Shell to Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, former energy minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday.

“I would expect the Republic of Cyprus to have had a say. A change in ownership will have been subject to government approval,” he told the Cyprus Mail....

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