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AFTER last week’s meeting of the European Council, it was reported that Cyprus was among the few member-states that had blocked the proposal to cut off Russia from the ...

While the fighting was raging in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged Ukrainians to get rid of their oppressive government. Russia had no plans to occupy Ukraine or ...

The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis. Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...

President Vladimir Putin described it as a ‘special military operation’ in the televised address announcing the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but it was a full-scale invasion. Putin ...

Nobody knows whether the action plan to tackle Gesy’s bad practices and squandering of the taxpayer’s money will prove effective, but it is step in the right direction. ...

Cyprus’ political parties grudgingly condemned Russia’s recognition of eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions, even though some could not even bring themselves to mention Russia by name in their announcements. ...

Many fine words were spoken after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on administering the migration problem in the presidential palace. The MoU between Cyprus and the EU, was ...

The pursuit of sanctions against Turkey is no longer the priority of the government’s foreign policy. This was made clear both by President Anastasiades and his new foreign minister ...

There was a great amount of unwarranted – some might say – fanfare on Friday because parliament had finally passed the law establishing an anti-corruption authority. It only came more than 60 years ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ Association (CCA) appears to have misunderstood its role. It is not a price monitoring service that decides whether price increases are acceptable or not, as the association ...

British permanent residents of Cyprus, understandably, were angered by the Cyprus government’s decision to take away their voting rights after Britain left the EU. Those whose names were on ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ Association (CCA) appears to have misunderstood its role. It is not a price monitoring service that decides whether price increases are acceptable or not, as the association ...

A few weeks ago, the legislature approved law that will protect whistleblowers. Under the law, private and public organisations as well as public authorities have a legal obligation to safeguard ...

When the legislature approved by overwhelming majority, the reduced VAT for the purchase of primary residences in 2016, deputies claimed they were assisting the less-off and young families buy a home. ...

It was triumphantly hailed by the government as the biggest and most important energy project ever undertaken by the Cyprus Republic, when the contract for the LNG import and regasification ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

It hasn’t been a great month so far for the reputation of the health scheme Gesy, but whatever operational weaknesses the system might have, they pale in comparison to ...

Hearing the announcement of the government’s housing policy plans for this year, people could have been mistaken into thinking that President Anastasiades would be seeking a third term. It ...

On the day primary school teachers held a one-hour work stoppage because they were not satisfied with the government’s response to their demand for full-time replacement staff, nursing unions ...

The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...

President Anastasiades has a habit of acting as a mediator or facilitator, getting involved in matters that are best left to his ministers and in some cases better left to ...

Surprise was expressed in some quarters about how soon after assuming his post as foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides was invited to Washington for talks with the Secretary of State Antony ...

Seven or eight years ago in or around the time of the financial crisis, the Cyprus Mail photographer took a picture of a frail elderly woman digging through a wheelie ...