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European Commission funding for Cyprus for the programming period between 2021 and 2027 has increased by over 70 per cent compared to the previous period, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday. Addressing ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday said he was not “indifferent” to the challenges of local government reform and that he in fact “did more than that for which the ...

The government will on October 30 announce two new schemes aimed at making housing in Cyprus more affordable, before beginning to implement both schemes within November, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will be travelling to Apia, Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting taking place between 21 and 26 October, an announcement said on Sunday. The minister will ...

One hundred days into the operation of the newly formed district self-governance organisations, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday praised their work, despite teething problems. He said he aspired to ...

Most of the 30 Village Clusters created by local government reform have proceeded with the establishment of their headquarters, permanent secretary of the interior ministry Ellikkos Elia said on Saturday. However, ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou hit out against the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) on Monday over the dozens of migrants stranded in the buffer zone for weeks. The migrants from countries ...

The implementation of local government reform is at an advanced stage and will be complete by the July 1 deadline, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. Speaking in Paralimni, the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has rubbished an alleged proposal by far-right Elam to give passports to migrants so they would leave the country. Elam has denied saying any such thing, ...

Whereas the government is doing all it can to contain and manage the influx of migrants, the situation could still spiral out of control especially if neighbouring Lebanon collapses as ...

Local government reform is “on the right track”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. Most of the teething problems faced during the transition to Cyprus’ new system of local ...

Greece is to join Cyprus’ group of European Union member states which will focus on the matter of declaring parts of Syria safe, Cypriot Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on ...

Local government reform is now “in the final stretch”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. Speaking to mukhtars, he said he described the reforms as “long-awaited, radical, and ambitious”, ...

People smugglers “are advertising voyages to Cyprus on social media”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. Speaking to mukhtars, he said the phenomenon of smugglers setting sail from Lebanon ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Sunday said that the government “can see signs of a potential solution to the Cyprus problem in the near future.” He was speaking at the ...

An action plan with dozens of measures to help third-country nationals legally residing in Cyprus integrate into the labour market and economy has been prepared, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou. Ioannou ...

The Swedish government on Tuesday refuted the Cypriot interior ministry’s claim it had offered “significant support” for the plan to declare parts of Syria safe. The interior ministry had ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday implored his European Union counterparts to re-evaluate the status of parts of Syria and consider parts of the war-torn country as “safe”. Speaking at ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis travelled to Brussels ahead of European Union summits which are set to take place this week. Ioannou will attend the EU’...

Previous governments’ inaction over the issue of migration constitutes “a crime against the country and against our people,” Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos said on Friday night. Speaking to party members ...

The parties unanimously approved the bill for the establishment of a deputy ministry for migration on Thursday. This will be the seventh deputy ministry set up in the last few ...

MPs slammed on Thursday the last-minute decision by the interior ministry to submit bills on local government reform. Chairman of the House interior committee, Akel MP Aristos Damianou, said it ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Andria Kades Opposition Akel shot down the government’s comments on local government reform, saying on Monday they were mistimed, unnecessary and damaging to the initiative. ...

As a war of words continued to rage over upcoming local government reform with ministers past and present charging political parties of distorting the law so much that the upcoming ...