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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 12-12-19
CONTENTS
[01] Cyprus EU Presidency achieves significant progress on CAP
[02] NASA and ESA dismiss Maya Calendar predictions
[01] Cyprus EU Presidency achieves significant progress on CAP
The Cyprus EU Presidency has achieved significant progress on the reform
of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Minister of Agriculture,
Natural Resources and the Environment Sophocles Aletraris has told CAN,
after the conclusion of the first session of the EU Agriculture and
Fisheries Council which takes place in Brussels.
He said that the aim of the Presidency was to achieve a partial general
approach on the CAP reform at the Council, but its plans had to change,
as there was no deal on the Mutliannual Financial Framework for the
years 2014-2020.
Despite that, he said, the Presidency prepared a detailed progress report
which indicates the major changes brought by the Cyprus Presidency on
the four basic draft regulations of the CAP reform and identifies the
issues which, in the view of the Presidency, remain open and require
further discussion. "We have made significant progress and we hope that
the dossier will close during the Irish EU Presidency", he said.
[02] NASA and ESA dismiss Maya Calendar predictions
The Maya Calendar did not predict the end of the world, according to
NASA and ESA scientists who have talked to the Cyprus News Agency.
They said that there is no such planet called "Nibiru" and humanity
should not fear that this mysterious planet will hit and destroy the
Earth on the day the Maya Calendar allegedly ceases to exist.
"I personally have understood that the Mayan calendar is a calendar just
like the ones we are using today. After the last day of the currently
valid calendar, we will have the first day of the next calendar", Head of
the Space Weather Segment in the European Space Agency Space Situational
Awareness Programme, Juha Pekka Luntama, has told CNA.
The theory about the end of the world was dismissed also by NASA. "Just
as the calendars we have at home do not cease to exist after December
31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012",
a NASA official has told CNA.
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