#Europe

Despite joining the European Union in 2004, Cypriots still have few opportunities to actively participate in parliamentary processes compared with other European citizens. While the House of Representatives publishes agendas, draft ...

Austria’s ambassador to the European Union has stepped down, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after reports he published an anonymous, sexually explicit blog for years. Thomas Oberreiter, 59, had ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament were evenly split over a no-confidence vote in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, with two voting in favour, two voting against, and ...

Forty-eight young people from six European countries are taking part in an international youth exchange programme focused on healthy living. The event, organised by Youth Dynamics, began on July 1 and ...

The EU is perhaps facing the most critical challenges since its creation. Certainly, it has to make major choices which will eventually determine its future path. These include vital economic, ...

The dilemma that Europe (and this includes the UK) would have to choose between the world’s two largest economic giants would have seemed preposterous a few months ago. Until ...

European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures ...

European leaders made the right decision in Paris on Thursday. More than two dozen heads of state and government unanimously agreed that sanctions on Moscow should remain until “peace has ...

US President Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking has given Europe an unexpected spur to action, but any sense of “Europhoria” about the region’s chances of turning this moment into ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskiy will be in Paris next week to hold talks with key European leaders and discuss ongoing efforts to end the war, security assurances for Kyiv ...

By Andreas Theophanous When Russia launched its attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the US, the EU and other Western powers had a strong reaction. Russia soon became “the most sanctioned ...

Given Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the broader threat that President Putin’s regime poses to Europe and the prospect that Ukraine and America’s Nato allies may ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Europe has stated its goal for greater independence from the US. As with all things European however, it is not going to be an easy endeavour. Even ...

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides is among the 20 world leaders participating in a critical summit to address the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. The virtual meeting, spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron, focuses ...

By Loukis Skaliotis European countries have recently woken up to the need to boost their defence spending with the defence/GDP ratio being pushed up above 2 per cent for Nato ...

Wolves in Europe will be less protected from hunting from 2025, after a majority of European countries on Tuesday accepted a proposal to downgrade their status due to their growing number ...

The speaker of Russia’s parliament scolded the European Union on Saturday for banning the distribution of four Russian media outlets and said it showed how the West refused to ...

Nicosia was on Sunday night awarded second place in 2024’s Erasmus destination of the year. The awards were handed out at the Erasmus Student Network (ESN)’s annual meeting in ...

The Turkish Cypriots’ future “lies in European values”, opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday. Erhurman was speaking in ‘parliament’ about the north’s relationship with international law, ...

‘Fascism is on the march everywhere!’ shrieked the headline on a recent think-piece by my least favourite foreign affairs commentator (who must remain nameless because I don’t want to ...

Macroeconomic stabilisation policy for some time now has been navigating in the dark. This will only increase in the next decades as structural changes in the economy are big and ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Reports according to which the German economy is facing serious problems are increasing. In reality, however, despite the current sluggish growth, the country is ...

The Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB) has joined the European Coalition of Cities Against Racism (Eccar). Announcing its joining of the coalition, LTB said it “represents local governments in the United ...

First ever study on history teaching in Europe A significant percentage of history teachers in Cyprus don’t see the benefit or don’t have time for training courses, say ...