Electricity bills, anti-corruption among big issues on House agenda
The legislature dives back into business this week and the next, with a packed agenda featuring a number of important bills and issues, starting with the presidential veto of a ...
Our View: Let’s hope parties put interests of economy above right to avoid repaying loans
Presenting the 2022 State Budget to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said the drawing of funds from European sources and programmes was a government priority. Cyprus ...
Coronavirus: Call for House approval of pandemic measures
The measures taken by the government to fight the pandemic ought to be approved by parliament, Diko MP Zaharias Koulias said on Wednesday, after tabling the issue for discussion before ...
House votes to cut VAT on electricity bills to 9 per cent (updated)
Parliament on Friday approved an opposition proposal to cut VAT on electricity bills from 19 per cent to 9 per cent across the board for an indefinite period.
The proposal was passed ...
Parliament to stay at Philoxenia until mid-2022
Party leaders decided on Monday that parliament will remain housed at the Philoxenia conference centre until July 2022.
The House moved there last year because it was impossible to apply health ...
The principles and rules to fight corruption
By Achilleas Demetriades
Public opinion is watching, day in day out, developments linked to the Pandora papers, and some months before that, the Al Jazeera revelations.
The Pandora papers issue ...
Municipal elections postponed (Updated)
The House plenum on Thursday voted for the postponement of local government elections as part of the sector’s reform.
The elections were to have taken place in December.
Postponement ...
House plenum to rubberstamp composition of committees (Updated)
The House plenary will on Thursday ratify the composition of the 16 regular and one ad hoc parliamentary committee, as well as a newly established ethics committee for MPs, the Cyprus ...
MPs meeting over how to share out House committees
The House selection committee meets tomorrow to assign MPs to the 16 House committees, amid speculation on whether smaller parties will be given a committee to chair, even though they do ...
US House Republicans elect Trump-backed Stefanik for leadership
U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Friday followed Donald Trump’s lead and elected Elise Stefanik to serve in their No. 3 leadership position, replacing Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic ...
Parliament confirms its website was hit by cyber-attack
The House of Representatives confirmed on Thursday that its website fell victim to a cyber-attack last month.
In a statement, the House said the Digital Security Authority which investigated the ...
‘No indications’ parliament website was hacked, official says
There were no indications the parliament’s website had been attacked by hackers on Monday, a senior official said.
Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Minister Kyriacos Kokkinos said it had ...
Parliament website under attack, delays publishing of PEPs list
Parliament on Monday said its website was under attack by a Turkish hacker and it would upload the promised list on bad loans of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and other ...
Parliament should “raise its standards”, House President tells CNA
President of the House of Representatives Adamos Adamou said on Wednesday that Parliament must raise its standards and improve its image among the public who are turning their backs to ...
Coronavirus: New measures to determine parliamentary schedule
After the holiday season, the House of Representatives hopes to reconvene normally next week, most importantly with the revision of the state budget, which was voted down on December 17 forcing ...