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Polish member of the European Parliament Tomasz Poreba met with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at Tatar’s official residence in northern Nicosia on Wednesday. After meeting with Tatar, he ...

Niovi Parisinou, who served as deputy government spokeswoman under President Nicos Anastasiades, has not yet been kicked out of Disy despite nominating Elam’s Geadis Geadi for the European Parliament ...

Far-right Elam have put forward a draft proposal to halve the amount of time refugees have to file asylum applications or appeals in the court, which seems to be gaining ...

With women giving birth to 1.4 children, Cyprus falls way below the level of fertility needed to replace the population, which stands at 2.1, the House ad hoc demographics committee heard on ...

April Fool jokes were running thin in the Greek Cypriot press on Monday, however daily Politis stuck to tradition with a piece suggesting yet another high-profile Disy member was flocking ...

A serving member of the British government attended an event held by far-right party Elam on Saturday. Martin Callanan, the country’s Under-secretary of state for energy efficiency and green ...

Disy on Friday blasted its former vice chairman Marios Pelekanos after he defected from the party to appear on Elam’s list for June’s European elections. They said, “until ...

Former government spokesman Marios Pelekanos has been included on Elam’s party list for June’s European elections. The party said Pelekanos “responded to Elam’s call for a joint ...

The scandal surrounding the Osiou Avakoum monastery opened up a Pandora’s box among MPs by Thursday amid concerns of tax evasion, accusations of money laundering and questions as to ...

Elam and an ex-police chief were linked to the ongoing church scandal involving suspected money extortion and sex between monks at the Osios Avakoum monastery on Tuesday. It emerged that ...

Parties on Saturday slammed President Nikos Christodoulides for handing out political favours with appointments made to semi-governmental organisations. Criticism came from various political factions, which slammed the sloppy handling by ...

President Nikos Christodoulides replaced an Elam member who was initially appointed to the board of directors of the Cyprus state university of technology (Tepak), it emerged late on Friday. According ...

Elam have been declared a terrorist organisation in the north, following the publication of the north’s annual list of illegal terrorist organisations on Thursday. They were one of several ...

Most news scandals are shameful, but the violent riots that took hold of Limassol on September 1 were nothing short of a disgrace. The reasons? Numerous. Take it from the fact ...

The Supreme Court has rejected former police chief Michalis Papageorgiou’s appeal against his sacking in 2014. Papageorgiou was relieved of his duties as police chief after Elam members stormed a ...

Parliament on Thursday passed the Charter of European political parties for a non-racist and inclusive society, despite opposition from Elam. The charter was drafted by the Council of Europe’s ...

A discussion in the house ad hoc demographics committee on statistics regarding abortions in Cyprus has been cancelled according to the parliament website on Friday, following an uproar from two ...

Akel is currently the most popular party, followed by Disy and then nationalists Elam in third place, a new opinion poll has found. The survey, conducted by IMR on behalf ...

The parliament’s Selection Committee on Thursday decided that the ad hoc committee on demographics – chaired by nationalist party Elam – restrict itself to discussing matters such as birth rates and ...

European leaders are torn between the human rights of refugees and the fear of local people of being swamped by refugees The racist attacks on refugees in Limassol and Paphos ...

The ad hoc committee on demographics, chaired by nationalist party Elam, will be restricted to discussing only the topic under its remit, House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Friday. Speaking ...

The attorney general on Tuesday ordered a police investigation after a Limassol municipal councillor was caught on video during Friday’s anti-migrant protest saying he would kill any delivery driver ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades More than 1,000 people from all over Cyprus descended on Limassol on Monday evening to attend an anti-fascist protest organised by Akel. The protest was ...

Calls on politicians not to pander to racists for votes The attacks on migrants and their properties in Chlorakas a week ago by thugs was a direct consequence of the ...