#Cyprus

Cypriot MEPs on Saturday called on EU institutions to change their view that Turkey is seen as a strategic partner. They also highlighted the importance of Cyprus leveraging the opportunity ...

Limassol is the soul of economic progress and development, shipping operations and technology companies,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday as he continued a tour of the island’s districts. ...

The north’s ruling coalition on Friday changed its legislation regarding the purchase of real estate by non-Turkish Cypriots, allowing them to buy more properties. Foreign nationals are now allowed ...

The Consumer Protection Service forwarded 4,966 Rapex notifications concerning vehicle recalls to the Road Transport Department (TOM) between 2011 and 2025, but has yet to receive a single response, the service’s director ...

Cross-border digital health services were officially launched on Friday, with Health Minister Michael Damianos highlighting the reform as a major step toward the future of healthcare in Cyprus. The launch ...

The trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as citizens of the Republic of Cyprus, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday agreed on the importance of maintaining dialogue, particularly in relation to the Cyprus problem and Turkey’s ties with ...

The European parliament on Friday distanced itself from Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s visit to Moscow last week, saying that he and others who travelled to the Russian capital “did ...

Cyprus is “in a unique position to be a gateway to Europe”, Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides said on Friday. Addressing the New York – Eastern Mediterranean Business Summit in ...

The European Union is to finance the expansion of Nicosia’s Pedieos linar park into the north, the European Union’s infopoint in Nicosia announced on Friday. The infopoint explained ...

The Nicosia city council voted to approve the partial re-opening of Makarios Avenue to vehicle traffic, following a long deliberation that concluded late on Thursday night.  Councillors voted to open ...

Forrmer auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, on Friday announced that he would form a “new political movement” on Monday. ...

A bill has been introduced to the United States’ congress which has among its aims the “strengthening” of the country’s “partnerships with Cyprus”. The bill, dubbed the ‘Eastern Mediterranean ...

Medical students at the University of Cyprus have expressed frustration over prolonged delays in establishing university clinics, saying the lack of progress is forcing them to pursue specialist training abroad – ...

A defence attorney in the ongoing ‘golden passports’ trial sought on Thursday to demonstrate that the naturalisation of a Russian national, despite certain irregularities in the procedure, cannot be attributed ...

Cyprus did not break European Union law over its regulation of the import of vehicles with potentially faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata, at least in part because there ...

Cyprus is actively pursuing “good neighbourly relations” with Syria, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Thursday. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC, Kombos referred to the announcement by US President Donald ...

The launch of a new nationwide screening programme for bowel cancer on Thursday offers free testing to thousands of people across Cyprus to detect the disease early and save lives. ...

Greece expressed its support for the European Commission’s announcement of Johannes Hahn as its special envoy for the Cyprus problem, though Turkey was less enamoured by the decision. Greece’...

The government is pursuing a full postponement of payment of so-called “green taxes” by Cyprus, according to recent statements of President Nikos Christodoulides on the matter. Negotiations to officially alter ...

The battle to free nearly 10,000 “trapped buyers” in Cyprus is heating up, as banks and credit institutions voiced strong opposition to a new law proposal discussed on Wednesday in Parliament. ...

The thirteen mobile desalination units set to arrive on the island as a gift from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to be reserved solely for use in Limassol, it ...

The demand by descendants of artist Stass Paraskos to have use of facilities at the Lemba Cultural Village is not supported by legislation nor by the opinion of the legal ...

The education ministry has started providing materials to schools to improve Greek language learning for students for whom it is a second language, it announced on Wednesday. The materials, which ...