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The Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira on Saturday visited various parts of Nicosia municipality accompanies by the capital’s mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis who gave a short presentation at ...

The regulation actually goes beyond halting biodiversity loss to push for ecosystem restoration, for ‘bringing nature back’ At first sight the positive tone of this column may seem rather out ...

The fiscal council has sounded the alarm over delays in securing EU funds from the bloc’s recovery plan, casting a gloomy outlook against the backdrop of record inflation and ...

Faced with pushback from MPs and building industry stakeholders, the government on Monday agreed to -again – rethink parts of a bill providing for reduced VAT on first homes. The matter ...

A big proportion of the Cyprus Republic’s population does not have a positive picture of the European Union. According to the Spring survey of the Eurobarometer, only 42 per cent ...

Sometimes it’s hard to know if the pollsters in Brussels actually believe the things they hear from the people they survey in member states from time to time, or ...

Cyprus has received certification from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for earthquake preparedness and response, Civil Defence spokeswoman, Olivia Michaelidou said on Sunday. Michaelidou told ...

The EU will find a way to make the Turkish leadership responsible for restricting the migrant flow into the north of the island and from there to the Republic, European ...

Based on data from the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Cyprus recorded the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2020, the finance ministry said in a statement. The ...

By the end of June all EU member states, including Cyprus, will receive the first batches of the monkeypox vaccine, according to EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakidou. ...

EU funding for the project in Limnes, infrastructure upgrades at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers, establishing a surveillance unit along the buffer zone, and the EU’s new ...

The interior ministry on Saturday said its efforts to control migrant influxes had yielded results and these were reflected on the outcome of the EU Home Affairs Council and the ...

The government and opposition parties appeared to have made some progress on Monday regarding legislation to be forwarded to the European Commission and which, if given the nod, would unlock ...

Cyprus has dropped from the top place of the European Environment Agency’s list classifying the best quality bathing waters in the EU. In last year’s study, Cyprus had ...

Another spate of mass shootings in the US has brought the gun culture debate into focus once more, with concerns locally as Cyprus appeared seventh in the world for firearms ...

It is regrettable that Turkey remains a ‘pampered child’ for some despite its continued provocations, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday, expressing the wish that the current situation in Ukraine ...

By Kate Abnett European Union lawmakers will attempt to block a plan to label gas and nuclear energy as sustainable investments as Europe wrestles with reducing its carbon dioxide emissions ...

A major holistic overhaul of the island’s judiciary must be completed immediately in light of the data presented in the 2022 EU Justice Scoreboard, which placed Cyprus last in Europe ...

The European Commission has sent four reasoned opinions to Cyprus, one step before the case could be referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union. In its infringement ...

By Kate Abnett Germany will oppose European Union plans to include nuclear energy as a sustainable investment in its “taxonomy” policy for labelling green investments, the government said on Monday. ...

Without clear and significant progress in EU-related reforms, the European Parliament cannot envisage resuming accession negotiations with Turkey, MEPs warned in a report adopted on Thursday. The report was adopted ...

By Kate Abnett The European Union executive wants to speed up the bloc’s green transition and cut its reliance on Russian fuels by allowing some renewable energy projects to ...

The Prisons Department emerged among the top three organisations participating in the pan-European competition #Beinclusive EU Sport Award 2022 and won an award under the “Celebrating Diversity” category. The EU Commission ...

By Nicolas Schmit and Margaritis Schinas In these difficult times, the EU is committed to supporting people fleeing the war in Ukraine to integrate into the European labour market, should ...