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Under pressure from the political parties, to address the issue of setting a minimum wage in exchange for their support for the 2021 budget, the government came up with a declaration ...

The despair of the interior minister Nicos Nouris about the migration situation is understandable. The inflow of migrants has steadily continued, causing the overcrowding of the Pournara migrant reception centre ...

When Cyprus was in the assistance programme, one of the main recommendations of the Troika was the reform of the local government system, which was a huge drain on state ...

Having exhausted all the Covid-19-related news stories the media have turned their attention to the vaccinations which, admittedly, are now the primary concern of most people. Since the arrival ...

The government has reverted to the excessive, repressive measures of last spring to protect public health despite assurances only a few days ago that there would be no ‘blanket lockdown’. ...

In an article published last Sunday in Kathimerini, the deputy leader of Disy and former finance minister Harris Georgiades argued that a federal settlement was no longer attainable. What was ...

The pandemic has been disastrous for schoolchildren, whose education has been continually disrupted since last spring. Schools closed for more than two months, public schools were completely unprepared for distance ...

After the discussions about the epidemiological situation and scientific advisory team’s proposals for additional restrictions, President Anastasiades came up with a positive point, according to deputy government spokesman, Panayiotis ...

Efforts to persuade the three deputies of Edek to vote for 2021 budget, which was rejected by the legislature last month, resumed on Monday when Disy chief Averof Neophytou met the ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos did a great a service to the Greek Cypriot people by revealing last Sunday that President Anastasiades had, on more than one occasion in conversations they had, said ...

All anyone could say about 2020 is good riddance, but that does not mean 2021 is destined to be any better despite everyone’s hopes. Maybe it will and maybe it won’...