Elias Hazou

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday completed a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank, where he held meetings with various officials. During the visit Kombos discussed “the current ...

News-wise, the Great Sea Interconnector had had quite the week: first the leaking of two reports casting major doubts over the endeavour, followed almost instantaneously by the revelation that a ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) said Thursday that it has cancelled a second-division football match scheduled for this weekend after being alerted to suspicious betting activity. The game in question, ...

A French company has agreed to buy a significant stake in the Great Sea Interconnector project, media reports said on Thursday. Bloomberg broke the story, naming the company as Meridiam ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday sent back to parliament a law passed two weeks ago that makes illegal transactions in liquid assets of over €10,000. The president refused to sign off ...

Cyprus this week requested from the European Commission the fifth tranche of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a statement said on Thursday. Pending approval from Brussels, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his Egyptian counterpart have agreed that their countries should “coordinate” on the potential fallout from recent events in Syria, the government said on Tuesday. Christodoulides and ...

The labour market in 2024 is “the best” of the last 15 years in terms of new job creation, the employment rate and salaries, the government claimed on Tuesday. Labour Minister Yiannis ...

The three-day debate on the 2025 state budget got underway on Monday, with the proceedings set to wrap up on Wednesday evening with the vote at the House plenum. The first ...

The EU must immediately appoint a special envoy to Syria, as well as use frozen assets of the former Assad government for reconstruction in the war-torn country, according to a ...

Two Hungarian nationals appeared on Thursday before a criminal court to hear charges relating to the illegal exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north of the island. The two ...

Parliament on Thursday evening gave the nod to an increase in maternity benefits and other child-related allowances, with the stated aim of boosting birth rates in Cyprus. Under the amendments ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday decided to postpone a scheduled vote on new regulations governing the recall of car components, which would have set out what to do with ...

A deadlocked vote in parliament on Thursday spelled the defeat of a bill that sought to impose a tax on the ‘windfall profits’ of banks, with the debate taking up ...

Parliamentarians on Tuesday sent a bill aiming to beef up existing regulations about vehicle recalls to a plenum vote on Thursday, following the outcry over the dangerous Takata airbags that ...

One in four workers are on low wages, a research institute affiliated with the left-leaning Peo union said on Tuesday outlining how income distribution has tilted away from salaried employees ...

Three months after getting sacked on grounds of ‘conduct unbecoming’, former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday received an honorary distinction as an “anti-corruption fighter”. The event was organised by the ...

The new mental health centre in Athalassa, Nicosia, was inaugurated on Monday, with President Nikos Christodoulides speaking of a long-overdue project. The existing psychiatric hospital in Athalassa dates to 1964. Now ...

A former attorney-general has advised President Nikos Christodoulides to seek a renegotiation with the United Kingdom over the status of the British bases on the island, it emerged on Monday. ...

Despite appearing to lack the necessary support in parliament, a bill imposing a new ‘bank tax’ will go to the House plenum later this week. Tabled by opposition party Akel, ...

Cyprus acceding to Nato – easier said than done? If so, why did the government float the idea, with President Nikos Christodoulides sounding sanguine about the prospects? A trial balloon, intended ...

Transactions of over €10,000 done in liquid assets, such as cash, are now illegal and punishable by fines or even jail time, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. Drafted ...

The House of Representatives was briefly thrown into disarray on Thursday when it turned out there were not enough MPs present to vote on proposed amendments to the constitution. The ...

With sound management of public finances, the economy will continue performing well in the next few years, but despite this there is no room for complacency, the finance minister said ...