#cabinet

MPs were apparently shocked to hear the government’s proposal that currently serving state officials would be allowed to continue to get a pension while still drawing a salary, it ...

Cabinet’s final decision over the regulatory framework of the leg of the Great Sea Interconnector project which runs between Crete and Cyprus was delayed for another day on Wednesday, ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill which will reduce Cyprus’ voting age from 18 to 17, while also approving a bill which will mean people will now be automatically registered to vote ...

Financial literacy classes will be rolled out to all third-year high school students this academic year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou announced on Friday. The decision was finalised during a Cabinet ...

Accountability must be demonstrated through actions not words, President Nikos Christodoulides pledged on Tuesday afternoon as he headed a cabinet session aimed at following up on the 2024 state action plan. ...

Ministries on Friday presented their flagship projects to be included in the state budget for 2025, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. A special cabinet meeting was held to coordinate preparation of ...

The legality or otherwise of deputy ministries may be taken to court, with lawyer Christos Clerides announcing on Tuesday his intention to bring the matter before the judiciary. In a ...

The first phase of the government’s new online portal is expected to be ready in June, deputy minister of digital policy Nikodemos Damianou said on Wednesday. Speaking after a ...

Cabinet is set to hold an extraordinary meeting on Thursday with the aim of discussing and approving a new package of measures to alleviate the cost-of-living crisis. The meeting comes ...

The newly formed cabinet convened for the first time on Thursday, ratifying the new deputy ministry position for European Affairs and approving a lump sum to subsidise low-income individuals for ...

Some outgoing ministers could not contain their dissatisfaction over the cabinet reshuffle during the handover ceremonies on Wednesday, ranging from pointedly not thanking the president, or by referencing the “sudden ...

By far the most painfully awkward ministry handover on Wednesday was that of the health portfolio, where the tension between outgoing minister Popi Kanari and permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides replaced four of his ministers on Monday in a partial reshuffle that had been widely anticipated. Effective from Wednesday, Vasilis Palmas will take over from Michalis Giorgallas ...

Political parties that supported President Nikos Christodoulides were completely caught off guard by his intention for a cabinet reshuffle, it emerged on Sunday, with all three saying they had no ...

The government could on Wednesday neither confirm nor deny a reshuffle would take place this month, with Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis saying it is up to the president to announce ...

A cabinet reshuffle will take place before the 18 months of President Nikos Christodoulides’ governance are up, he said in an interview published in Phileleftheros on Sunday, noting that decisions will ...

President Nikos Christodoulides presented the government’s future objectives and major reforms during a long meeting with the ministers at the Troodos presidential residence. The entire cabinet, as well as ...

Few eyebrows were raised when the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel made his latest cabinet reshuffle on August 11. It had been expected for some time that he would banish ...

Cabinet will hold an informal meeting at the Troodos presidential retreat where the ministers will present their goals and priorities to see how these can best be achieved. The meeting ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has announced the names of the members of his new cabinet, after performing a cabinet reshuffle on Friday. The highest profile move is ...

Meanwhile, the House ethics committee on Wednesday discussed a revamp of the ‘sources of wealth’ legislation for state officials, in the hope of widening its scope and including judges. MPs ...

The labour ministry intends to bring before the cabinet a bill on regulating working from home next Thursday, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday. Speaking before the House labour ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday approved a vacation subsidy scheme for low-income pensioners in Cyprus, allowing them to take discounted holidays in resorts and hotels located in rural areas of ...

The cabinet on Friday approved an interior ministry proposal to review the criteria for the naturalisation of third country nationals. According to Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, the proposal is mainly ...