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Akel and government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis were on Saturday engaged in a running battle of press releases denouncing one another, with seven statements flying back and forth, and opposing each ...

The leader of opposition party Akel has asked President Nikos Christodouldes directly to scrap plans for ‘green taxes’ this coming May as it would further burden already struggling people, according ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou and Britain’s foreign office’s Mediterranean department’s deputy director Alison Kemp met on Thursday in London to discuss the Cyprus problem. After the meeting, ...

2025 appears destined to become the Year of the Political Saviours. Just a few days into the New Year, a third pretender has stepped forward offering to save Kyproulla from corruption, ...

The proposed bill to impose a tax on banks’ windfall profits would jeopardise the stability of the financial system, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. His comments came a ...

A deadlocked vote in parliament on Thursday spelled the defeat of a bill that sought to impose a tax on the ‘windfall profits’ of banks, with the debate taking up ...

Despite appearing to lack the necessary support in parliament, a bill imposing a new ‘bank tax’ will go to the House plenum later this week. Tabled by opposition party Akel, ...

An AKEL delegation, led by the party’s general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou on Friday met with former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in the north to discuss the Cyprus issue ...

Opposition party Akel is bent on taxing banks’ historically high profits on Thursday, while critics argue the move intended to effect social justice is misguided. Member of the House finance ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Friday the Greek Cypriot side is “only asking for what the resolutions contain” in its efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem. The resolutions to ...

Local government reform had been undertaken without preparation, Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Wednesday. The two and a half years which had been granted while elections were postponed had ...

The termination of the Paphos-Polis road construction contract has prompted strong reactions from both Disy and Akel, who blame each other and successive governments for issues affecting major public projects ...

The ways in which a solution to the Cyprus problem would turn the country into a hub of lasting peace and cooperation in the region were discussed on Tuesday during ...

Akel’s general secretary Stefanos Stefanou met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Athens on Monday, with the Cyprus problem being top of the ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Wednesday assured that the government is committed to finding lasting solutions to the economic challenges facing Cypriot society, highlighting the importance of incorporating feedback from ...

It was inevitable that Akel would start protesting as soon as it became known that that government would not extend the duration of the measures that were implemented to help ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel walked out of the room when Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou spoke at the Socialist International party leaders’ board meeting in New York on ...

Representatives of opposition political parties from both sides, Akel and the CTP, are to travel to New York to attend events and hold meetings on the sidelines of the United ...

Akel on Thursday said it was organising a protest against the dismissal of now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides outside the presidential palace. The protest will take place on Sunday at 4...

Grief, anger and a call to urgently solve the Cyprus problem were the key themes from political parties on Saturday, who paid tribute to the 50-year anniversary since the Turkish ...

The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...

Opposition Akel on Wednesday called out President Nikos Christodoulides and his government for what it calls a failure to fix the problems in the health system, Gesy, which the party ...

Opposition Akel said Tuesday it demands a full accounting of what really lies behind the ‘strategic dialogue’ initiated between Cyprus and the United States and which was announced with much ...