Cyprus

Savvas Papasavas has been re-elected vice-president of the general court of the European Union for the period from September 16 to August 31, 2028. The re-election follows a partial renewal of the court’...

More than 850 donors from the Karaiskakio Foundation registry in Cyprus have provided transplants to patients in 35 countries, the organisation has announced. The update came on Saturday, marked as World Marrow ...

Talks between Cyprus trade unions and the Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou ended on Tuesday without an agreement on the future of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA). A new meeting ...

The construction of the Nicosia-Palaichori highway is progressing, said Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday. Speaking at the site, Vafeades said that while the project has experienced a minor delay, ...

Five Greek Cypriots who tried to visit their properties in northern Cyprus remain illegally detained by the Turkish-controlled authorities, the country’s Foreign Minister, Konstantinos Kombos, said on Tuesday. He ...

The centre of excellence Eratosthenes of the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) and the municipality of Paralimni-Deryneia have agreed to extend their strategic cooperation for the next four years. The ...

Circus, street performances, theatre and dance are to fill Limassol this autumn as the ArtCargo Festival lands in Cyprus for the first time. Blurring the lines between art and everyday ...

More than 75 projects for the Paphos district, with a total budget exceeding €230 million were outlined on Tuesday evening by President Nikos Christodoulides, who was addressing local authorities from the district. ...

MPs on Tuesday decried the vast trade imbalance between Cyprus and China, with the trade surplus for the East Asian country said to be in the range of €1 billion. At ...

Democracy must not only be taught in classrooms but also lived in everyday practice, Citizens’ rights commissioner Panayiotis Palates said on Tuesday presenting a study on democratic education. Pupils, teachers, ...

Parliamentary presidents from small European states on Tuesday condemned violations of sovereignty and territorial integrity, reaffirming at the same time their support for a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus issue ...

A bill which would do away with MPs’ blanket immunity from prosecution has been gathering dust for some 12 years as it lacks the required support in parliament, media reports said ...

Delinquency “starts in the family”, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening of a new sports hall at a school in Paphos, she said that “not ...

Both Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and the organisation representing employers and industrialists expressed confidence on Tuesday that the roadmap for the planned tax reform is on schedule. The planned tax ...

Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus on Tuesday told a visiting contingent of over 150 Turkish Cypriot mukhtars that there is “no other way” to find a solution to the Cyprus problem ...

Three ancient coins were donated to the antiquities department after they were found among donations given to the Sophia for Children organisation, it announced on Tuesday. The three coins were ...

A 58-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning on the Avdelleros-Athienou road after driving a public bus while he was seven times over the legal alcohol limit. Traffic police stopped ...

The issue of whether girls should be allowed to attend public schools in the north while wearing hijabs returned to the fore on Tuesday, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ ...

Recently introduced eIDs are being produced by a private company, formerly headed by Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou, which was awarded the contract without going through a tender process, an ...

A fire which broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Limassol left a vehicle completely obliterated, police said on Tuesday. The fire broke out at around 1.50am ...

Deputy European Affairs Minister Marilena Raouna told her EU counterparts on Tuesday that Cyprus is “deeply concerned over the expansion of military operations” in the Middle East, adding that the ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday travelled to the State of Israel to meet his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen. According to his ministry, he will participate in a “roundtable discussion ...

The National Guard has introduced a digital platform to notify reservists and military personnel via text message, the defence ministry announced on Tuesday. This initiative was introduced within the context ...

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (Greco) demanded that Cyprus make more progress in the next 18 months for the country to reach an “acceptable” level of ...