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Before Thursday’s European Council, President Nikos Christodoulides said that Turkey should be left out of summits called by European countries about Ukraine and European defence. According to press reports, ...

There is an unwritten law in Cyprus by which banks and semi-governmental organisations cannot make staff redundant. They can only offer a voluntary exit scheme by which it is up ...

At least the majority of 93 deputy mayors, who were elected some nine months ago thanks to the so-called reform of the local government, have the decency to complain about being ...

Another €200m will be needed for the completion of the LNG import terminal at Vasiliko, said the finance ministry. But we suspect that this is a very optimistic estimate, considering ...

After the televised bullying and humiliation of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy at the Oval Office by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday, the suspension of all US military ...

The prospect of an informal, multi-party gathering in Geneva that would examine the possibility of a new peace process, which is anything but a certainty, appears to have worried some ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos should be congratulated for ignoring the reactionary pressure of the government doctors’ union Pasyki and going ahead with the submission of the bill that would establish ...

Mayors were outraged on hearing that Limassol municipality had been served with an invoice for €45,000 for the policing of Sunday’s carnival parade. The Union of Municipalities expressed its disapproval ...

Τhe ultra-nationalists of Elam and Edek, supported by a couple of newspapers, went on the offensive last week, after hearing that public schools were allegedly organising excursions to areas in ...

Another farcical meeting about multiple pensions was held at the House finance committee on Monday. This time deputies of all parties, including those supporting the government, turned against the government ...

Monday marked three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the so-called “special military operation” that was meant to have been completed within a few days with the invading troops ...

Before Wednesday’s council of ministers’ meeting, President Nikos Christodoulides said the growth of the economy was creating new jobs and increased needs in the labour market in which the ...

We often wonder what is the point of town planning rules and so-called zoning? Do they exist so that they can be ignored by the authorities when a developer comes ...

The Deputy Minister of Tourism Costas Koumis has made a habit of producing numbers and percentages as proof of the good work he has been doing. While this is a ...

IN THE end the government’s attempt to settle the issue of the tax debts of the football clubs, through an absurd repayment scheme that would be covered by the ...

The media and political reaction to the signing of the latest energy agreements with Egypt was understandably muted, despite the presidential palace’s enthusiastic efforts to talk up their significance. ...

Much was made in the press about the decision of the Disy constitutional congress to strike off members of the party that are serving in the government of President Nikos ...

News of a proposed bill, tabled to parliament by the finance ministry and intended to resolve the issue of multiple pensions, is very welcome – but the proposed solution is still ...

Kudos to Depa MP Michalis Yiakoumi who is advocating harsher sentences for child predators. Although Cyprus’ criminal code enshrines life sentences as the maximum penalty for a number of sexual ...

The struggle to regulate Gesy goes on – but the health system is like a moving target, defying any attempt to control it. The latest initiative is the ‘urgent referral’ system ...

The weather on Tuesday was not the only thing that rained on the goat and sheep herders’ parade. Goat and sheep breeders marched on the presidential palace clad in waterproof ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday claimed some credit for the preparations now underway by the UN for an informal five-party conference on the Cyprus issue that will reportedly take place ...

Three years and a few million euros later, Cyprus is still struggling to implement a national strategy for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the meantime, their problems are ...

The news that yet another golf course, Limassol Greens, will be opening this summer isn’t shocking in itself, but the timing is unfortunate. Golf courses are notorious water guzzlers – ...