Tom Cleaver

Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Menelaos Menelaou and undersecretary to the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Dana will hold a one-on-one meeting before President Nikos Christodoulides, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, and ...

A British member of parliament from the country’s ruling Labour Party has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Girne American University in Kyrenia, the university announced on Sunday. ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Saturday decried the “constant arms race undertaken by the Greek Cypriot side” during a meeting with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz in Ankara. ...

The European Union’s envoy for the Cyprus problem Johannes Hahn is to return to Cyprus next week, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Speaking after President Nikos Christodoulides’ ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday promised that Friday’s cabinet reshuffle will have no effect on Cyprus’ preparations to undertake the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency ...

Edek leader Nikos Anastasiou on Saturday ruled out the prospect of his party withdrawing its support for the government after his party had hours earlier released a statement expressing fury ...

The European Commission has allocated €2.3 million from the European Union solidarity fund to help Cyprus recover from the extensive wildfires which broke out in the Limassol and Paphos districts in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides “has answers for all issues” related to ongoing talks on the Cyprus problem, including Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s four points to restart negotiations, government spokesman ...

George Penintaex is to become a member of parliament for Dipa after one of the party’s MPs, Marinos Mousiouttas left parliament to become labour minister on Friday. He joins ...

Four new names are set to be added to Cyprus’ cabinet on Monday with six positions changing hands following President Nikos Christodoulides’ announcement of a cabinet reshuffle on Friday evening, ...

The Polish embassy in Nicosia on Friday said it had no intention to “attribute responsibility for disinformation material distributed online to the Turkish state” after an employee of the embassy ...

Close allies of the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel have this week faced court and sackings from their jobs within the north’s largest ruling political party the UBP ...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced six changes to his cabinet on Friday in the second major reshuffle of his term so far, and the first in almost two years. Michael Damianos, ...

The House finance committee is “approaching the end” of its debate regarding the government’s sweeping tax reform proposals, committee chairwoman and Diko MP Christiana Erotokritou said on Friday, describing ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday lamented a “lack of results” in efforts to resolve the issue of long tailbacks and congestions at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point in ...

The prospect of a railway line being constructed in Cyprus is not to be laughed at, European transport commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas said on Tuesday. “Don’t laugh at [the idea ...

European transport commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas on Tuesday said he considers himself to be a second Cypriot commissioner, alongside his “good friend”, fisheries commissioner Costas Kadis. “For me, Cyprus has two ...

Cyprus’ close relations with most of its neighbours can aid the European Union’s fight against illegal and unregulated fishing when it takes over the Council of the European Union’...

The Iranian government on Saturday confirmed that it had seized a tanker vessel operated by Cyprus-based company Columbia Shipmanagement, with news agency Reuters quoting state media as saying the ship ...

Larnaca is both ready and set to host its annual marathon on Sunday, with more than 13,000 runners from 85 countries expected to pound the town’s streets across the event’s ...

Greece’s foreign ministry on Saturday promised to “never accept” northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence, on its 42nd anniversary. “Today marks 42 years since the illegal, invalid … [and] unilateral proclamation ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday both called for a “just, lasting, and sustainable solution” to the Cyprus problem, as the north celebrated the 42...

Credit rating agency S&P has upgraded the outlook of Cyprus’ economy from “stable” to “positive”, citing a “faster than expected” improvement in external debt ratios. The island’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday condemned northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence as a “reprehensible act”, on its 42nd anniversary. “Today’s sad anniversary of the illegal and internationally illegitimate ...