Focus on integration of migrants
The importance of integrating refugees into local communities, in particular in the early stages of their transition to Cyprus was the focus of Wednesday’s conference...
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‘Skyscrapers are not mushrooming…Cyprus won’t turn into a Manhattan’, says Petrides
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides pledged on Thursday that Cyprus would not be turned into Manhattan during House discussions on his ministry’s budget when the topic...
Major boost for asylum service ‘will speed up processing’
Cyprus on Thursday signed a permanent hosting agreement with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the first EU country to do so in order to...
Unhcr: Cyprus should not have to deal alone with asylum issues
CYPRUS, currently receiving more asylum seekers per capita among European countries, should not be left alone to deal with this situation, said Unhcr Cyprus Representative...
Experts advise against minors’ facility in Zygi
The European Commission and expert opinion have advised against the creation of a state facility for unaccompanied minors in an empty military camp in the...
Cyprus says EU asylum policies failing frontline countries
Cyprus cannot accept the EU’s Legislative Package on Asylum without provisions for redistribution of migrants across the bloc, Interior Minister Constasntinos Petrides has said. He...
Rescued Syrians to seek asylum
A group of 17 Syrian refugees who had been rescued off the Cape Greco coast on Monday afternoon intend to apply for political asylum, the...
Arrest of migrant mother for allegedly stealing food ‘beyond the pale’
By Peter Michael Migrant support group Kisa said on Saturday that police exceeded all limits of discrimination when they arrested and detained a migrant woman,...
Migrants from caravan in limbo as US says border crossing full
About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek US asylum on Sunday but were not...
Kofinou: feeling far removed from Europe
Over the past several years, migrant support group Kisa and the Unhcr have put extensive pressure on the Cypriot authorities to raise the quality of...
Whistle-blower Efimova applies for asylum
Maria Efimova, the former Pilatus Bank employee and source of the slain Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, said that she has applied for political asylum...
Greek court temporarily freezes asylum to Turkish soldier
Greece won on Monday a temporary injunction freezing asylum granted to a Turkish soldier who fled with seven others to the country after a botched...
EU leaders clash over refugees
Two years after the Mediterranean migrant crisis blew a hole in the European Union, a tentative effort to patch up differences over what to do...
Tensions rise as Australia dismantles detention centre (Update)
Australian private security on Tuesday vacated an asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ahead of its planned closure, detainees said, leaving about...
Cyprus sees rise in asylum applications
While asylum applications dropped by 54 per cent in the EU in the past year, Cyprus saw a rise of 43 per cent, Interior Minister...
European asylum chief on visit to Cyprus
The Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), José Carreira, was in Cyprus on Wednesday in the framework of the agency’s ongoing efforts...
Three Turkish families apply for asylum
The three families of Turkish nationals – in total 12 people – who were caught on Monday after attempting to travel with fake documents from...
Far-right group’s ship briefly held in north (Updated)
A ship an anti-migrant group planned to use as part of its campaign to protect Europe from mass migration was detained in Cyprus and then turned away...
Almost 3,000 applied for asylum in Cyprus last year
Cyprus is among the countries with the highest number of registered first-time asylum applicants in 2016 compared with the size of its population, a Eurostat...
Conditions at Kofinou asylum centre remain substandard, human rights officials say (Updated: ministry responds)
Despite the fact that Cyprus was not greatly affected by the mass movement of refugees in 2016, conditions at the Kofinou reception centre for asylum...
