Cyprus News Agency

President Nicos Anastasiades briefed on Thursday the European Council President Charles Michel on efforts to resume the Cyprus peace talks and asked for the EU’s contribution for confidence building ...

The cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend ‘test to stay’ to the National Guard. The measure is already in place in schools with the aim to keep them open in ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis is in Strasbourg to attend the informal meeting of his EU counterparts which will on Monday and Tuesday focus on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday he was having intensive consultations with all stakeholders to agree on changes to be forwarded to the European Commission regarding halloumi, which was ...

The partnership between Cyprus and the US, and the prospects for regional cooperation on energy issues were discussed during a meeting Thursday in Washington between Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and ...

Deputy Ministers for Tourism and Shipping Savvas Perdios and Vassilis Demetriades welcomed the assurances by Royal Caribbean’s interest to invest in Cyprus, expressing their readiness to enhance the island’...

Chris Heaton-Harris, the recently appointed Minister for Europe in the UK government, has reiterated London’s support for the UN-led process to advocate a solution in Cyprus “in line with ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will further bolster its supervisory framework in a bid to go along with technological developments in the market, CySEC chairman George Theocharides said ...

In 2020, renewable energy sources (RES) made up 37 per cent of gross electricity consumption in the EU, up from 34 per cent in 2019, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical office ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, will meet on Tuesday with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, in Washington D.C. A foreign ministry press release said discussions will focus on the resumption ...

UNSG special representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, will hold separate meetings on Tuesday with president Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar. Anastasiades will receive Stewart at 11am at ...

The financial support given to companies affected by the ongoing pandemic announced by the Ministry of Finance this week seems to be financially bearable without serious consequences on public finances, ...

A total of 85 per cent of patients with Covid-19 receiving treatment at Famagusta General Hospital are unvaccinated, according to Amalia Hadjiyianni, scientific director at the Larnaca and Famagusta general hospitals. ...

The Cyprus government says references included in a resolution, adopted on Thursday by the UN Security Council, extending the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNIFCYP) until July 31, 2022, improve ...

Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, Ambassador Andreas Hadjichrysanthou, has expressed the hope that the Secretary-General will be in a position to appoint an envoy to facilitate the resumption ...

US Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Nicole Malliotakis recently sent a stern letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken vociferously objecting to the Administration’s recent reversal of support for the ...

The Foreign Ministers of the European Union had an exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine and Russia’s threats to the country’s security with US Secretary of ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will participate in the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) and General Affairs Council (GAC) in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. The agenda of the FAC ...

Close contacts of Covid-19 cases will only have to self-isolate for 10 days instead of 14 from Monday. Close contacts can also released earlier than the 10th day if they have a ...

Increasing migratory flows into Cyprus require comprehensive management of the asylum system in line with international laws and norms to implement fast and fair asylum procedures, the UNHCR representative in ...

Police on Friday said they issued a total of 44 fines for violation of the Covid-19 measures. A police spokesperson told Cyprus News agency that during the last 24 hours, 2,063 checks were ...

The UN is trying to keep the two sides in Cyprus closer and reach an agreement for the benefit of all involved, it has said. The situation Cyprus is in ...

Newly-appointed Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides is paying on Wednesday his first official visit to Athens since taking office. Kasoulides will be received by the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina ...

The Recovery and Resilience Plan will facilitate the path towards improved productivity and significantly affect GDP growth, the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus (CypERC) has said in ...