Cyprus News Agency

The effect of illegal carnival gatherings last weekend and the relaxations of measures last Tuesday will start to be seen by the epidemiological team as of this coming Tuesday, a ...

EU Turkish relations will be discussed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, for which Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will depart later on Sunday. The Council will ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings or CI) said it has affirmed the Republic of Cyprus’ Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) and Short-Term Foreign Currency Rating (ST FCR) at ‘BB+’ ...

Police fined 169 people and eight establishments for violations of Covid measures during a total of 12,276 checks in the last 24 hours islandwide. In Nicosia there were 3,285 checks and 32 people were booked. ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) is ready to move into a new energy era with the use of natural gas and renewable energy sources (RES), chairman of the board Michalis Komodromos ...

Cyprus’ traditional cheese halloumi is now at the final stage to be registered as an EU product of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Minister of Agriculture Costas Kadis, told CAN ...

A video conference on EuroAfrica Interconnector project is expected to take place before the end of March between officials from the relevant ministries of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt, in order ...

The Cabinet, chaired by the President Nicos Anastasiades, is meeting from 9.30am to take final decisions regarding possible new relaxations of the restrictive measures to curb the spread of the ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that American diplomacy will be “fully engaged” in the Cyprus issue, while testifying on Wednesday evening before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Responding ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said the first official East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) meeting, which took place in Cairo on Tuesday had been “particularly productive” Pilides said all seven founding ...

The EastMed pipeline could be in place within five years, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday, describing it as an extremely important project. “In Israel we have a ...

Beer sales for the local market declined by an annual 38 per cent in the period January–February 2021 with exports soaring 84 per cent compared with the same period last year. According ...

After a nine-year impasse, Israel and Cyprus on Tuesday reached an understanding over gas reserves straddling their maritime border in a development hailed as a “breakthrough” by Israel’s energy ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to express on Monday during a meeting in Nicosia with the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy on Cyprus Jane Holl Lute his determination to attend ...

Women held 33 per cent of seats in national parliaments in the EU in 2020, according to data released on Sunday by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU. Cyprus, at 22 per ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to express on Monday during a meeting with the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy, Jane Holl Lute, his determination to attend the 5+1 informal meeting on ...

The European Union fully supports the resumption of a settlement process under UN auspices as soon as possible and stands ready to provide whatever assistance both parties and the UN ...

A two-state solution in Cyprus is not a real solution, the new French Ambassador in Cyprus, Salina Grenet-Catalano, has told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), noting that Paris is very ...

The government of the Republic of Cyprus has refuted a report by Greek daily “To Vima” which set out a scenario of the EastMed natural gas pipeline circumventing the Cyprus ...

€1.1bn was lost to the Cyprus economy as a result of the coronavirus, the statistical service (Cystat) announced on Tuesday. According to Cystat, Cyprus’ GDP shrank by 5.1 per cent in 2020 ...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has described the internationally accepted model of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation as “a starting point” for a settlement to the Cyprus issue, urging “flexibility ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has told the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres he is ready and determined to engage with true political will in the talks during an informal meeting on ...

EU and UN officials are expected in Cyprus in the coming days, ahead of the informal conference on Cyprus that will take place on April 27-29 in Geneva and this ...