#Member of the European Parliament (MEP)

Turkish vice president Cevdet Yilmaz on Tuesday dismissed a recent European Parliament resolution on rape committed by Turkish soldiers during the 1974 invasion, describing it as “legally and morally unfounded” and ...

The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ has described the resolution passed by the European Parliament earlier this week on the sexual violence suffered by Cypriot women during Turkey’s invasion in 1974 ...

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a report into the sexual violence suffered by Cypriot women during Turkey’s invasion in 1974, with 575 votes in its favour, 33 votes against and 43 abstentions. ...

Greek member of the European Parliament Eleonora Meleti on Tuesday told her fellow MEPs that she had promised that “someone will finally take care of these open wounds” as the ...

Cypriot members of the European parliament on Tuesday took to the floor of the Strasbourg chamber to call for the European Union to treat Turkey as a threat and not ...

Cypriot MEPs Loukas Fourlas and Giorgos Georgiou are set to abstain from Wednesday’s plenary vote on a European Parliament report concerning Turkey, despite both describing elements of the text ...

Cypriot MEP Geadis Geadi addressed the European Parliament plenary session to criticise Turkish harassment of aircraft carrying European defence ministers recently travelling to Cyprus. Geadi said he had received approval ...

European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna on Tuesday hailed the “milestone” agreement reached by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament that will allow pregnant members of ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament Costas Mavrides, of Diko, on Thursday called for a halt to European Union funding of the Turkish Cypriot agricultural sector, alleging that Turkish Cypriot ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament demanded more support for Lebanon amid an insurgency being undertaken by Iran-backed militia Hezbollah and an ongoing invasion being launched by Israel, with MEPs ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday expressed “surprise and regret” at references to Cyprus in the European Parliament’s latest annual report on Turkey, which had called on ...

Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an ...

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 Tuesday night called for the permanent stationing of European Union military force in Cyprus. “The last few years, ...

It is Turkey which “controls things in Cyprus”, Cypriot member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas, of Disy, said on Wednesday, as the parliament’s petitions committee (Peti) discussed the ...

Independent MEP Fidias Panayiotou remarked he would “probably be a billionaire” had he not entered politics, presenting himself as a reluctant public figure whose online success was derailed by holding ...

Farmers will take to the streets in protest against the EU–Mercosur trade agreement, MEP George Georgiou confirmed on Friday, warning that the deal threatens food safety standards and the ...

A formal complaint against Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou over derogatory remarks referring to those with intellectual disabilities has reached the European Parliament and is now under further examination. The complaint ...

Unity is the European Union’s greatest strength and “only by acting together, across institutions and across member states, can we translate unity into action”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

On Thursday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the illegal and continued detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, calling for their immediate and unconditional release.  The ...

MEPs from Cyprus and Greece called for the release of five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north in July and demanded measures be taken against Turkey, during a debate at ...

Cypriot MEPs on Saturday called on EU institutions to change their view that Turkey is seen as a strategic partner. They also highlighted the importance of Cyprus leveraging the opportunity ...

Members of the European parliament late on Wednesday night condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to the north, with one describing him as “a neo-Ottoman tyrant and ...

A push for closer cooperation between Cyprus and the European Union on economic policy took centre stage on Monday during a meeting between Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and Independent MEP ...