#Cyprus

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday expressed the conviction that France would continue to be Cyprus’ solid partner to efforts to reunify the country, for the benefit of all Cypriots. In ...

The audit service plays a key role in fighting corruption even though this is not under its responsibilities, Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides told university students interning at the parliament on ...

Australian MP and Chair of the Australia/Cyprus Parliamentary Friendship Group, Maria Vamvakinou paid a visit to Cyprus last week, opening the discourse on human rights, migration and peace, the ...

Thanasis Nicolaou’s mother is set to file a private lawsuit against police officers, members of the national guard and the state pathologist who carried out the autopsy on her ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar rubbished reports that Turkey is set to return to the negotiating table to resume Cyprus problem talks on Friday. Tatar said “it is impossible to ...

An ongoing embroilment between church and municipality in Paphos flared up Friday after a two-year hiatus, with the municipality waking up to find its funds having been frozen by the ...

The new deputy culture minister Vasiliki (Lina) Kassianidou was sworn in on Friday in a ceremony attended by President Nikos Christodoulides. At the ceremony, Kassianidou thanked Christodoulides for appointing her ...

The House on Thursday passed a law that fast-tracks ‘strategic investments’ and regulates licensing procedures and timeframes, but some MPs decried the discretionary powers given to the minister and senior ...

In a just-published report on Thursday, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) said that persons being returned ...

An amendment to the Refugee law drafted by Elam, which will mean that all asylum seekers who refuse to consent to medical examinations to determine their age will be presumed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has said his biggest priority is to make every possible effort to break the current Cyprus problem deadlock and restart a “structured and results-oriented dialogue”. He said ...

The Holy Synod decided on Thursday to welcome back to the church controversial theologian Andreas Pitsillides, who had been excommunicated in 2015 over differing views with the church, then led by ...

Applications for the new mortgage to rent scheme will be accepted starting October, the finance ministry said on Thursday, a day after the scheme was given the nod of approval ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Thursday welcomed the UN security council’s commitment to a sustainable and just solution to the Cyprus problem, along with its move to support appointing ...

The illegal poaching and trapping of migratory birds earns criminals around 11 million euros, according to Justice minister Anna Procopiou. Procopiou produced the figure after the signing of a memorandum of ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said the government is ready to discuss with the other ruling parties the strengthening of support for vulnerable groups facing foreclosures. “Within the context of the ...

Greece and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to resume talks and confidence-building measures as they hailed a new “positive climate” in ties after more than a year of tensions between the ...

For the first time in years, more asylum seekers are leaving Cyprus than those entering, the interior ministry said on Wednesday as 51 more people were relocated to France through the ...

The cabinet approved on Wednesday a mortgage to rent (MtR) scheme, following approval from the European Commission last week, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The commission on July 6 approved a ...

Germany and other countries are poised to withdraw their funding for Cyprus’ committee of missing persons (CMP), Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides told the house refugee committee on Tuesday. In ...

Turkish Parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus visited the north on Tuesday and met with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, ‘Prime Minister’ Unal Ustel, and the north’s ‘Parliamentary’ speaker Zorlu Tore. ...

Four advisors working for the government were unlawfully employed and procedures to end their employment should begin immediately, the Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides has said. Neither the two advisors to ...

The procedure for examining unemployment benefit applications needs to be reviewed, deputies said on Tuesday after social insurance department officials asked the neighbours of an applicant whether she was employed. ...

The government’s goal is to bring the social insurance system into the 21st century, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (...