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The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the allocation of over €9 million from the European Union solidarity fund for Cyprus to help rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the wildfire which tore through ...

The European Parliament plenary adopted on Wednesday a recommendation to the EU Council, the European Commission and EU foreign affairs representative, calling for the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot non-voting representative at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe Hasan Tacoy has called for designated seats to be allocated to the Turkish Cypriot community at the ...

Five of Cyprus’ six members of the European parliament on Wednesday night voted to approve a motion empowering the parliament to enter negotiations with the European Council for the creation ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, said he “regrets” the European parliament’s plans to erect a monument to the Greek Cypriots who ...

The Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erhurman, has criticised a decision by the European parliament to fund a monument for those missing during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. He called the ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament were evenly split on both occasions as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen survived two no-confidence votes in Strasbourg on Thursday. The first ...

The Cyprus issue, water scarcity issues and forest fires in the EU and developments in the Middle east will be among the topics discussed in the European Parliament’s (EP) ...

The issue of missing persons in Cyprus is a European issue and the EU could make resolving it a condition for continuing its financial support to Turkey, European Parliament rapporteur ...

The report on Turkey approved by the European parliament on Wednesday is a “biased document” which “ignores the will of the Turkish Cypriot people”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said. ...

Members of the European parliament late on Wednesday night condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to the north, with one describing him as “a neo-Ottoman tyrant and ...

A German member of the European Parliament has voiced strong support for efforts to reunify Cyprus, urging the international community to closely watch developments affecting Turkish Cypriots. Kai Tegethoff, an ...

Member of the European parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Wednesday announced that he is to visit Russia “in a few days”. He made the announcement during a European parliament debate titled “...

The recent visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the north was raised on Monday at the European Parliament, during the first day of the plenum. A proposal was ...

The European Union is “committed to supporting Cyprus on its journey towards reunification”, European parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday. Addressing a European parliament debate on the Cyprus problem, ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for Turkey to be excluded from the European Union’s plans to bolster its defence capabilities, with one MEP describing the ...

Women who suffered abuse at the hands of Turkish soldiers in 1974 will have the opportunity to share their testimonies with the European Parliament at the end of May, during a ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Tuesday announced his intention to invite schoolchildren to the European Parliament building, prompting the Cypriot education ministry to distance itself from ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Monday night launched a scathing attack on the European Union’s “hypocrisy” on the Cyprus problem. Addressing a European Parliament session ...

A decision on approving Hungary’s Oliver Varhelyi as the new EU commissioner for health and animal welfare has been postponed, a spokesperson for the European Parliament said on Monday. ...

While most of the 720 people who were elected as members of the European parliament a little over 100 days ago have kept their heads well below the parapet since, Fidias Panayiotou ...

Cypriot MEPs Loucas Fourlas and Michalis Hadjipandela organised an awareness event on the Cyprus issue at the European Parliament, they said on Tuesday. The event was organised at the European ...

Newly re-elected European Parliament president Roberta Metsola and four of Cyprus’ six members of the European Parliament on Wednesday called for the Cyprus problem to be solved, as the 50th ...