#European Union (EU)

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, departs Sunday for Luxembourg where he is due to attend the meeting the EU Foreign Affairs Council ahead of the main summit in Brussels late in ...

Cyprus hopes to tap some €1.2 billion from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Facility, in exchange for which it pledges to implement a series of reforms. But it’s a ...

The EU needs to clarify whether it will act against further Turkish provocation, president Nicos Anastasiades told EU leaders on Thursday in light of next week’s European Council session, ...

The EU and the US are set to endorse a joint declaration during their summit on June 15 in Brussels, for a “renewed transatlantic partnership” that will also work for sustainable ...

One in ten Cypriots say they were misled into buying counterfeits, according to an EU-wide survey released as part of an awareness campaign by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (...

Cyprus will invest €283m from an EU-backed recovery and resilience fund in a concerted drive to transition into the digital era aiming at stronger economy and prosperity, President Nicos Anastasiades ...

* Britain-Norway trade worth £20 bln in 2020 * Britain-Iceland trade worth £558 mln in 2020 Britain has clinched post-Brexit trade agreements with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein as it seeks to forge new global trading relationships ...

The UN Secretary-General’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute is expected to arrive on the island within June for consultations ahead of another five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, Foreign ...

by Kyriacos Nicolaou Both iPhones and smartphones using Google’s Android operating system come bundled with pre-installed applications, but is this beneficial to the consumer? An increasing number of experts ...

Businesses expect an extension to EU’s July 3 deadline to ban single-use plastics Business leaders have warned green-minded members of the public not to expect Cyprus to become a single-use ...

A lawyer for the European Union accused AstraZeneca on Wednesday of failing to respect its contract with the 27-nation bloc for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and asked a Belgian ...

The European Commission has agreed to changes in the tender framework for a planned ferry link to Greece, raising hopes the long-discontinued service could attract interest from potential bidders, deputy ...

Cyprus will not be able to take full advantage of ample EU covid aid unless it is willing to undertake major reforms In recent days there has been much advertising ...

Cyprus has notified the EU it cannot accept any more irregular migrants, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Friday as authorities scrambled to accommodate some 200 new arrivals in a few ...

The government does support the auditor-general but he ought to respect the work of other institutions, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. He was commenting on a statement by the ...

Portugal will allow tourist flights from European Union countries with low infection rates and from the UK, but passengers must show a negative coronavirus test on arrival, the Interior Ministry ...

EU leaders are clear that Turkey`s position on Cyprus solution cannot be accepted or tolerated, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. The president who is in Porto for the EU ...

The European Commission appointed former crisis management and Ebola coordination Commissioner Christos Stylianides, a Cypriot national, as Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the ...

The European Union’s executive recommended on Monday that foreign citizens fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and those coming from countries with a good epidemiological situation be allowed to travel into ...

European Union countries introducing their own COVID vaccination certificates would have to grapple with a myriad of disjointed systems if the bloc fails to build a shared one, a senior ...

By Jan Strupczewski Years from now, 2021 may be seen as the moment the European Union took a leap forward from its post-World War Two birth as a coal and steel ...

The European Commission said on Monday it had launched legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and for not having a “reliable” ...

The EU has not received an invitation to participate in the informal five-plus-one summit on Cyprus in Geneva next week but an official will be there to monitor developments, it ...

As Nicosia moves into the final stages of preparations ahead of the informal five-party summit in Geneva where the island’s two community leaders will meet under the UN secretary-general ...