#state budget

Cabinet on Friday approved the state budget for 2025 and the government’s medium-term fiscal framework for the three years between 2025 and 2027. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Finance Minister ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos emphasized on Friday that initial steps have been taken to appoint experts for a study on the state payroll, with further updates expected after the holidays. ...

The 2024 state budget reflects the government’s commitment to sound, sustainable and secure fiscal management, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday after cabinet approved the first budget submitted under his ...

Disy MPs were critical of the government’s performance during the second day of discussions in the House regarding the 2024 state budget on Tuesday despite party leader Annita Demetriou throwing ...

By Elias Hazou and Tom Cleaver The 2024 state budget looks set to pass the house on Wednesday after Annita Demetriou, leader of the House’s largest party Disy, threw her ...

The foreign ministry is to temporarily move to the former Laiki Bank head quarter in Strovolos, according to reports. Subject to final approval from the Strovolos municipality, the government is ...

The interior ministry on Monday presented the House finance committee with a budget more than 10 per cent higher than the year before, with its main focuses on housing policies, dealing ...

A group low-grade civil servants said on Wednesday it is imperative that their representatives be present at a discussion next week on pay rises for civil servants. The meeting, pegged ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos delivered on Wednesday the state budget for 2024 with a promise of cost-of-living relief measures by the end of the month – and a look ahead to next ...

The government on Monday asked MPs to hold off on pushing through a legislative proposal that would end the ban on new recruitments in the public sector concerning promotion positions ...

A rally in support of Grivas Dighenis will be held on Thursday in front of parliament, as a proposal has been put forward to cut any funding to organisations supporting ...

Parliament will begin debating the 2023 state budget on Tuesday, for the last three sessions, before the legislative body goes into recess ahead of the presidential elections. Τhe session is set ...

Failure to address social and economic needs By Les Manison The budget is the main instrument of government policy for meeting the social and economic needs of its citizens. Indeed, ...

A little over a third of the interior ministry’s budget for 2023 will go to development projects, as the administration works to push through a number of reforms, including in ...

Cabinet passed a decision on Wednesday to suspend any budget requests as of November 1 that will significantly affect the state budget, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said. Petrides said that the ...

The state budget for 2023, submitted on Thursday by Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, has been increased by €500 million. Petrides met with House President Annita Demetriou in her office to deliver his ...

As is the case with the global and European economies, the course of the Cypriot economy continues to greatly depend on the pandemic but despite being characterised by uncertainty, the ...

Edek on Wednesday said it would approve the state budget for this year announcing that its goal for more generous social benefits has been achieved. The decision will provide the ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday he had a productive meeting at the presidential palace where he discussed his party’s conditions for backing the revised state budget for 2021 ...

MPs will debate the beleaguered state budget for 2021 on Thursday, January 21, instead of on Monday January 18 as originally planned, it was announced on Thursday. The change follows a decision taken ...

A minimum pension, subsidies to working mothers and photovoltaics in mountain areas were among Edek’s proposals incorporated in the revised budget, its chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday. Edek ...

The president on Friday hosted a meeting of party leaders and the House president who were briefed about the changes to the state budget whose original bill was rejected by ...

The finance and labour ministries are working on revising the support schemes ahead of a new lockdown, expected to be announced on Friday as a means of further curbing the ...