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The belief that Cyprus will be able to face the new risks and challenges in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine was expressed by Minister of Finance Constantinos Petridis, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades’ will meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron next week as he makes several trips abroad including to Egypt, Israel and France. According to the director of the ...

Hope for Children organisation on Monday said it has hosted during the past three years, 257 unaccompanied minors, in its ‘Home for Hope’ shelter, offering them support during their transition to ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris will on Monday sign an agreement in Switzerland, with the latter providing a financial contribution of €10 million to Cyprus for the management of migration flows. The ...

An icon of Saint John, illegally exported from Cyprus in 1974, was handed over to the Church during an event at the Archbishopric on Thursday. An announcement said that on behalf ...

No border change using military force and no act of secession can be acceptable, said the President of the House of Representatives, Annita Demetriou, who participated on Tuesday in the ...

The proposed regulation on controlling the rise of energy prices must be thoroughly studied to ensure that it is in line with wider EU policies, Energy, Commerce and Industry Minister, ...

The European Commission on Tuesday endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Cyprus’ payment request for €85 million in grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), while Cyprus lost €90 million in ...

The health condition of Archbishop Chrysostomos remains critical, according to the latest medical announcement issued on Monday. “The state of health of His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos remains critical. The head ...

Increased interest revenue stemming from monetary policy normalisation should not overshadow Cypriot banks’ structural vulnerabilities, Constantinos Herodotou, governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said on Monday. Speaking to ...

Cyprus has coped well with the two shocks of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, taking advantage of the reforms implemented and its strong fiscal position, head of the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday congratulated the new prime minister of Italy, saying he looks forward to working together within the European family. “Congratulations to Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new ...

The foreign ministry sent a letter to the UN peacekeeping force Unficyp on Thursday asking for an immediate postponement of works taking place at the Cetinkaya football pitch in the ...

Police inform the public on Wednesday morning that no problem is observed on any of the main urban arterial roads and the highways. Rocks have fallen on the Orkoda-Kambos road ...

The average gross monthly earnings of employees for 2021 increased by 3.2 per cent compared to 2020 to €2,067, reaching a decade high. According to a press release by the Statistical Service of Cyprus, ...

The Tax Department is proceeding rapidly with clearing tax returns from previous years and aims to have all the declarations cleared by the summer of 2023, the tax commissioner said on ...

Consumers should have the opportunity to choose healthy food, produced in an environmentally sound and socially responsible way, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Tuesday. Kadis added that the government ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its forecast on the growth rate of the Cypriot economy in 2022 to 3.5 per cent of the GDP from 2.1 per cent that it expected ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said Cyprus will continue to support the shipping sector, regardless who is in government. “No matter who is president, the established policy cannot be changed, which says ...

The international Walk for Freedom, organised to combat human trafficking and raise awareness on the issue, is being held for the first time in Cyprus with bi-communal cooperation on October 15. ...

The European Commission’s position regarding the Turkish embargo on Cypriot-flagged ships and airplanes remains unchanged and has been clear for a long time, said EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean. ...

The number of permanent residents in the north of the island over the past decade has risen by 36.5 per cent, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Monday. According to a report ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides leaves for the US on Monday, where he will take part in the annual general assemblies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as ...

The first official visit of Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Cyprus is a turning point in the relations between the two countries, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday. ...