#European Union (EU)

Savvas Papasavvas was on Wednesday elected president of the general court of the European Union for the remaining term until August 31, 2028. Born in Nicosia in 1960, Papasavvas completed his studies at ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she wanted to open the door to Canada becoming the EU’s first “associate member,” in a significant policy shift ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Strasbourg on Wednesday, becoming the first foreign head of government to attend the European Commission president’s State of the Union address, ...

Germany’s under-fire Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on colleagues to look beyond debates about his political future on Monday, warning that the protection of Europe was entering a decisive phase ...

By Kyriaki Stinga and Adonis Zachariou On September 3, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in Case C-798/24, Jautiva, addressing the compatibility of unrestricted public ...

The European Commission has proposed new rules for public tenders that would create an EU-wide platform to improve access and slash paperwork for companies, and give EU governments the option ...

The government is hoping for a political decision to be made on whether it will be able to join Europe’s border-free Schengen zone “as soon as possible”, President Nikos ...

Cyprus will account for a total of €3.5 billion from the European Union’s next multiannual financial framework, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, before announcing that “projects” costing the same ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met European Council President Antonio Costa at the presidential palace on Friday, with the EU’s next long-term budget, the Cyprus problem and regional developments among the ...

The attempted attack in Leipzig had all the hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday, adding that Europe needs to coordinate ...

Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States all offered condolences on Sunday after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, causing the confirmed deaths ...

Icelanders have voted to stay out of the European Union, broadcaster RUV reported on Sunday, rejecting a government push to reopen membership talks and siding with those who said Iceland’...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked Cyprus for the efforts it made during its six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency to bring ...

Nicosia will be one of the stops on European Council president Antonio Costa’s annual ‘Tour des Capitales’ starting on Tuesday, focusing on defence, competitiveness, enlargement and support towards Ukraine. ...

Europe’s post-war economic model is “eroding” and unlikely to return in its previous form, European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, urging the bloc to make ...

European Union officials are hoping a referendum in Iceland on whether to restart membership talks will help boost support within Europe for other less wealthy states to join the bloc, ...

The European Union’s support for the Great Sea Interconnector project constitutes a “shield” against expected opposition to the project from Turkey, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday. He ...

The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months over its war in Ukraine, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, told a German ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas questioned Washington’s rationale for imposing new tariffs on European goods, saying on Friday that allegations of shortcomings in the bloc’s forced ...

A new digital platform, Food Connect, has been launched in Cyprus to reduce food waste by linking businesses with surplus food to charities and the public, Friends of the Earth ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy on Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin, met the European Union’s newly appointed envoy for Cyprus and European Commission Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto, as well ...

August 3 marks the end of an era for thousands of Cypriot citizens who still hold the well-known, old-style blue identity cards. From that date onwards, these identity cards will no ...

The European Commission opened nine new infringement procedures against Cyprus on Wednesday over the country’s failure to fully and promptly transpose a series of EU directives into national law. ...

Cyprus is among ten countries that believe the EU should reconsider a new carbon price on fuel, a stance that could divide the bloc. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, the ...