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As we have written in the past with regard to the Cyprus problem, the process has become an end in itself. Everyone is happy when there is a so-called peace ...

Comments made by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan about the issuing of the Greek Navtex that would allow the start of survey work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) in ...

Another make or break meeting in the ongoing saga of the Cyprus issue takes place on Monday. If Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and President Nikos Christodoulides agree to the ...

Police carried out one of the biggest ever nationwide operations against organised crime on Thursday when 26 people were taken in for questioning, search warrants were executed in 27 premises and vehicles, 37 ...

There was not a single voice of dissent on Wednesday, when the deputies at the House education committee discussed the supposed need for higher grants for university students. When it ...

The government could not allow the meeting of Maria Angela Holguin with the representative of the Turkish government, Ali Burak Basceri, in the occupied area, to pass without comment. This ...

Cyprus’ unions have always championed collective agreements at the workplace, insisting that the regime existing in the protected public sector is also imposed in the private sector. The demand for ...

Akel secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou addressed the party’s central committee on Saturday about the plans for the 2028 presidential election. He announced the start of contacts with political and social forces ...

Attending an event to celebrate the 95th anniversary of football club Olympiakos Nicosia, President Nikos Christodoulides donated €95,000 as a birthday gift. The only justification he offered for this indefensible squandering ...

It is deeply ironic that Cyprus’ state authorities are using a European regulation on media freedom, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), to restrict media freedom by exercising control over ...

Less than a fifth of students in secondary education attend vocational education and training programmes, said President Nikos Christodoulides, in an address to the opening ceremony of the ninth national ...

The coordinating committee of the Federation of Environmental Organisations of Cyprus (Opok) supported the residents of Mitsero who oppose the setting up of an asphalt production plant in an area ...

Playing host to the Famagusta municipal council at the presidential palace on Monday, President Nikos Christodoulides said that his proposal about the fenced area of Famagusta, was still on the ...

The discussion about regulating property purchases by third country nationals resumed at the House interior committee last week. The committee had embarked on the discussion of law proposals that would ...

Another ‘constructive’ meeting of the two leaders was held on Tuesday, according to an announcement issued by the UN. A week earlier, they had a ‘positive’ meeting, said the UN. ...

The government never misses an opportunity about the healthy public finances which it invariably credits to its prudent economic policies. Are its economic policies prudent or has it been fortunate ...

Reading the comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan about the construction work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), some might conclude that this opened the way for ...

Averof Neophytou, who has turned Disy upside down in the pursuit of his presidential ambition, announced on Wednesday that he would stand in Monday’s election for the party candidacy. ...

After years of high expectations about the gas finds in the Cyprus EEZ, everyone is starting to understand that no decision taken by the oil industry is straightforward. It was ...

Nobody appears to have been surprised by the results scored by Cypriot students in the PISA 2025 exams conducted by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). PISA assesses 15-year-old ...

It is quite astonishing that there has been a shortage of some 600 nurses at hospitals and clinics for some time now and nursing unions are preventing every government attempt to ...

New Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki, confirmed on Friday that the resumption of work on the construction of the Paphos-Polis highway, which stopped two years ago after the public works department ...

Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...

Good to hear someone in a position of authority standing up for economic reason and pointing out what should have been obvious to everyone with the most basic understanding of ...