Elias Hazou

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, telling MPs that the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) could end up costing a great deal more than the €1.9 billion as advertised, ...

Lawmakers on Monday began reviewing proposed legislation requiring Cyprus to participate in an EU-wide centralised platform providing data on companies and financial institutions. Officials have prepared a dozen bills for ...

Parliament on Monday took a first look at a batch of bills aiming to rationalise and speed up hiring in the civil service, with MPs objecting to some of the ...

Government officials and MPs on Thursday revisited the matter of restricting property and land purchases by non-EU nationals, with one lawmaker saying that foreign nationals account for one-half of such ...

In a letter published on Thursday, the leader of opposition Akel has asked the finance minister how the entry of a French asset management firm in the Great Sea Interconnector (...

Lawmakers on Thursday continued seeking ways of barring recipients of Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from gambling at casinos, amid an acknowledgment they have to tread carefully due to privacy considerations. ...

An association representing IT companies in Cyprus on Tuesday called for at least €1 billion in investment in artificial technology (AI) over the next five years. “If we truly wish for ...

Main opposition party Disy and the Chamber of Commerce (Keve) on Tuesday called on the government to clear up ambiguities in its pension reform plan, while a left-leaning trade union ...

Consumers should brace for new fuel price hikes come 2028, MPs heard on Tuesday, as Cyprus harmonises with EU rules increasing the use of biofuels in transport. In parliament, officials said ...

Former deputy attorney-general Loukis Loucaides on Monday called his indictment for financial embezzlement “a malicious conspiracy” against him, insisting he did nothing wrong. Loucaides – who served as deputy AG from 1975 ...

The main group representing the interests of businesses set out on Monday their concerns over the government’s planned pension reform, while talks continued among stakeholders on its details. A ...

Work on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) could resume by year’s end, the Greek foreign minister said on Monday reiterating that Greece would not ask Turkey’s “permission” to ...

A family’s plea after years of fighting The family of a quadriplegic Greek woman have decided to go public in pleading with the Cypriot government to release nearly €5 million ...

Authorities have begun work on updating legislation governing driving permits, bringing it in line with a new EU directive, media reported on Thursday. The updated EU Driving Licence Directive introduces ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) on Thursday hit back at reports that it’s blocking the operation of a key infrastructure of a private power station located near its own Vasiliko ...

The Cyprus economy appears to be resilient to external shocks and continues to grow at a satisfactory rate, although inflationary trends persist, the finance minister said on Tuesday. Makis Keravnos ...

The amount of water currently held in the island’s reservoirs is more than double that held at the same time last year, figures from the Water Development Department showed ...

The government announced on Monday that €95 million has been approved for major upgrades of the national electricity grid, with the associated targeted actions expected to expand the grid’s capacity ...

Elam on Monday slammed a football training camp for youths organised in the north of the island by Spanish club FC Barcelona, with the party especially outraged with the term ‘...

Owners of commercial solar parks on Monday took to task the leader of the Direct Democracy party Fidias Panayiotou, who claimed businesses could slash their prices by as much as 20 ...

Defence sources on Thursday declined comment on media reports that a police probe into last month’s fire sparked by the destruction of munitions at a firing range has found ...

Iranian diplomatic sources said Thursday that Cyprus faces no threat as long as British bases on the island are not used in operations against the Islamic Republic. The official comments, ...

The transport ministry announced on Tuesday it has launched a tender for the procurement of ‘smart’ traffic lights to be installed at locations across Nicosia and Limassol, for a project ...

A legal framework governing the implementation and supervision of EU regulations concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently under public consultation, with the proposal as it stands stipulating ...