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Opposition party Akel is bent on taxing banks’ historically high profits on Thursday, while critics argue the move intended to effect social justice is misguided. Member of the House finance ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Friday the Greek Cypriot side is “only asking for what the resolutions contain” in its efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem. The resolutions to ...

Local government reform had been undertaken without preparation, Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Wednesday. The two and a half years which had been granted while elections were postponed had ...

The termination of the Paphos-Polis road construction contract has prompted strong reactions from both Disy and Akel, who blame each other and successive governments for issues affecting major public projects ...

The ways in which a solution to the Cyprus problem would turn the country into a hub of lasting peace and cooperation in the region were discussed on Tuesday during ...

Akel’s general secretary Stefanos Stefanou met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Athens on Monday, with the Cyprus problem being top of the ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Wednesday assured that the government is committed to finding lasting solutions to the economic challenges facing Cypriot society, highlighting the importance of incorporating feedback from ...

It was inevitable that Akel would start protesting as soon as it became known that that government would not extend the duration of the measures that were implemented to help ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel walked out of the room when Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou spoke at the Socialist International party leaders’ board meeting in New York on ...

Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...

Akel on Thursday said it was organising a protest against the dismissal of now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides outside the presidential palace. The protest will take place on Sunday at 4...

Grief, anger and a call to urgently solve the Cyprus problem were the key themes from political parties on Saturday, who paid tribute to the 50-year anniversary since the Turkish ...

The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...

Opposition Akel on Wednesday called out President Nikos Christodoulides and his government for what it calls a failure to fix the problems in the health system, Gesy, which the party ...

Opposition Akel said Tuesday it demands a full accounting of what really lies behind the ‘strategic dialogue’ initiated between Cyprus and the United States and which was announced with much ...

Akel and Disy were embroiled in a full day of bickering on Thursday, where they compared each other to Elam. Ahead of looming elections, the two large parties drew their ...

Akel deputy Christos Christofides has written to the auditor-general asking him to examine the data of the Independent Social Support Agency, which is under the authority of the president’s ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Thursday outlined a list of “problematic points” in the government’s housing policy. Speaking at a press conference, he first took credit for the positive ...

In an interview given of the occasion of May Day, Sotiroulla Charalambous, the general secretary of the Akel union federation Peo, felt duty-bound to talk about important Marxist ideas such ...

Eighty three years was marked on Sunday since the founding the Akel party. On April 14, 1941, the founding meeting of the party was held in Skarinou, on the initiative of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday welcomed the new pact among EU states dealing with migrants and asylum seekers, calling it “a step in the right direction” as political parties here ...

Disy and Akel on Tuesday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to convene a National Council meeting and brief political parties over developments on the Cyprus problem. “It is with great ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that economic problems are not addressed with superficial proposals, referring to a recommendation made by Akel for taxing bank profits, underlining his readiness to ...