#European Union (EU)

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir told Reuters on Wednesday she is optimistic her country could join the European Union as early as 2028, adding she expects fisheries and agriculture ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that Cyprus has demonstrated in practice that European strategic autonomy is achievable, as he addressed policymakers in Brussels while holding key meetings on the ...

The Middle East crisis, the foot and mouth disease outbreak on the island and the way forward in the Cyprus problem are on President Nikos Christodoulides’ agenda on Wednesday, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will tell the leaders of other European Union member states of a need for the bloc to achieve further strategic autonomy when the European Council convenes later ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday stressed the need for the EU to strengthen its presence and role in the Middle East, warning that the ongoing war should no longer ...

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday she had discussed with the United Nations the idea of freeing up transport of oil and gas through the Strait of ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the U.S. wants to “divide Europe” and doesn’t “like the European Union” in an interview published by the Financial Times ...

Cyprus recorded the lowest use of public transport among all EU countries in 2024, with 85 per cent not using it, significantly higher that the EU average, Eurostat said on Wednesday. According ...

War “has already touched on European soil”, Dutch member of the European Parliament Jeroen Lenaers warned on Wednesday, as lawmakers discussed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, late on Monday night hailed the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the ...

The delivery of 529,000 vaccines against Foot and Mouth disease have been handed over to Cyprus by the European Union, Health Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi confirmed on Saturday night. “529,000 vaccine doses from ...

Cyprus is facing growing pressure to support a proposed EU ban on lead in hunting cartridges and fishing weights, as environmental groups call on the government to back the measure ...

The European Union will provisionally apply a contentious free trade agreement with South American bloc Mercosur to ensure it secures first-mover advantage, the European Commission said on Friday, in a ...

The fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was marked on Tuesday with defiant rhetoric by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who said “we have preserved Ukraine.” Russia’s ‘...

With Cyprus remaining for the time being outside of Europe’s border-free Schengen zone, the European Union’s new electronic entry/exit system (EES) will not be applied on the ...

By Kyriacos Theocharous Cyprus is often discussed through the lens of tourism, services and geopolitics. But there is another reality, less visible, yet crucial to our economy and to Europe’...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a two-day trip to eastern Europe on Sunday to bolster ties with Slovakia and Hungary, whose conservative leaders, often at odds with ...

Almost two thirds of Cypriots believe that European security is strengthened through the institutional mechanisms of the European Union, according to a Eurobarometer survey published on Friday. “The most notable ...

European Union leaders agreed on Thursday on a wide-ranging set of commitments to improve how the bloc’s border-free internal market works so Europe’s businesses can be competitive and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday called for the European Union to sign new trade deals with both the United Arab Emirates and Australia. “What was done with India should proceed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday hailed the Council of the European Union’s decision to approve the disbursement of almost €1.2 billion worth of funding for Cyprus’, to be spent on ...

The EU–Mercosur trade agreement continues to hang “like a sword of Damocles over the heads of farmers”, Akel MEP Giorgos Georgiou cautioned on Wednesday, warning that recent safeguards approved ...

Financial assistance of more than €1.181 billion in defence loans was granted to Cyprus by the European Council under the Security Action for Europe (Safe) fund on Wednesday. “Today’s decisions ...

The Cypriot EU Council Presidency’s latest attempt to advance the EU’s tobacco tax reform was put to the test on Wednesday 21 January, when officials convened in the Council’...