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Between 2008 and 2017, a total of 7,500 individuals obtained Cypriot citizenship through the investment programme, with the cabinet first becoming involved in 2021, a senior officer told the Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday. ...

House energy committee chairman and Disy MP Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis on Tuesday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ “highly illegal” intervention over the matter of forthcoming rises in electricity bills, describing it as ...

An industry ecosystem that already produces drones and software sees the sector growing Talk of Cyprus having a defence industry may get trolled in conversations and on social media, but ...

China hopes to strengthen its ties with the European Union when Cyprus assumes the rotating presidency of the bloc in the first half of 2026, despite what it sees as “contradictory ...

Amid much pomp President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday laid the foundation stone for a project further expanding the island’s two international airports, promising to service over 17 million passengers a ...

A bill has been tabled in the United Kingdom’s parliament with the aim of allowing direct flights between the country and northern Cyprus. The bill, an “early day motion”, ...

House president Annita Demetriou spent over €15,000 for luxury hotel rooms for three nights for those accompanying her on a trip to London, according to a report released by the audit ...

Seabed surveys to find a sinking point for the pipeline which will take natural gas from Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to Egypt for liquefaction will begin this week, Energy ...

This is focused on Cyprus, Egypt and Israel. All three countries have abundant renewable energy potential, especially solar. But so far success in harnessing it is mixed. Cyprus produced 24 per ...

The arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north may have been “designed as a reaction to the Turkish side’...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Friday said he is unsure whether the opening of Cyprus’ electricity grid to private companies will lower people’s electricity bills. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, currently sanctioned by the EU, does not appear on any documents relating to a Cyprus-registered company chartering yachts and which dissolved in 2024 while having €14 million in ...

The government on Wednesday pledged that it would cover the state health services organisation (Okypy)’s financial deficits until the end of next year, with the deficits expected to reach ...

The government and the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) clashed on Monday over who is to blame after the CFA had informed European football governing body Uefa that all of Cyprus’ ...

Cyprus has launched its much-heralded new campaign to lure back skilled professionals from the diaspora, with generous tax breaks, digital tools, a growing number of tech jobs and a real ...

There is “no clear information” on whether or not the Great Sea Interconnector project, which would connect the electricity grids of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, will proceed, energy expert Dr ...

The voting age was lowered to 17 years on Thursday by an act of parliament, with the first application of this to take place in the 2028 presidential elections. The House plenum ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday night announced his plan to lure Cypriots living abroad to return to the country. Addressing the Guildhall in the City of London to 750 interested participants, ...

The government on Tuesday declined to comment on why Cyprus was not among a group of more than 20 donor nations urging Israel to permit the full, unimpeded flow of humanitarian ...

A proposal to tax the ‘windfall’ profits of producers and suppliers of renewables-generated electricity ran into stiff opposition from industry but also the government during a parliamentary debate on Monday. ...

As threatening bank letters are sent to borrowers who cannot obtain title deeds to their properties, the realisation is setting in that decades of diligently paying loans may in the ...

Officials from the Paphos district were left upset and perplexed by the government’s decision to only use the mobile desalination units which are set to be delivered to Cyprus ...

A session of the House audit committee looking into a €14 million tax debt to the state ended abruptly on Thursday amid accusations of disrespect and obstruction by a state’s ...

Austria’s Johannes Hahn was on Tuesday appointed as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s special envoy for the Cyprus problem. President Nikos Christodoulides welcomed Hahn’s appointment ...