#European Union (EU)

EU leaders meeting in Cyprus called for stronger European defence cooperation, faster energy independence and closer engagement with the Middle East, as instability in the region continues to affect Europe’...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday called on European Union leaders to begin preparing a coordinated response framework if a member state is attacked, stressing the need for greater readiness and ...

The number of immigrants residing in the European Union climbed to a record high of 64.2 million in 2025, up about 2.1 million from a year earlier, according to a report published on ...

European countries including Spain and Ireland pushed on Tuesday to suspend a pact governing the EU’s ties with Israel but failed to garner enough support from the bloc’s ...

United Nations undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Tuesday said that “regular interaction” with the Turkish Cypriot side is “very important and helpful” for the UN. Speaking after a ...

The European Parliament has in its latest annual report called on Turkey to “give the Turkish Cypriot community the necessary space” to chart its own political course. The report was ...

The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is ready and will soon be available to use, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, as member ...

As soon as Johannes Hahn left his post as the European Commission’s envoy for the Cyprus problem, Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis was at pains to stress that processes ...

More than half of employees in Cyprus report experiencing stress, placing the country among the most affected in Europe, according to new findings released Wednesday. Data from Gallup’s workplace ...

A clear mechanism on how the European Union should respond when its mutual assistance clause, Article 42.7 of the EU Treaty, is invoked, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. He said ...

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, said on Friday that Moscow should drop its “tolerant attitude” towards Ukraine’s possible EU membership. “The EU is no ...

As the war with Iran, involving Israel and the US, escalates, governments in Europe appear to be underestimating its ongoing and future damaging economic impact. Already, the war has triggered ...

The European Union economy is at risk of stagflation as a result of the surge in energy prices caused by the Iran war, European Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. “The ...

A proposal to exclude Turkey from participating in defence-related aspects of the European Union’s Horizon Europe 2028–2034 programme was approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament’s committee on defence ...

Austrian diplomat Johannes Hahn on Monday resigned from his post as the European Commission’s envoy for the Cyprus problem, commission spokesperson for cohesion Maciej Berestecki said. “Hahn has resigned ...

Farmers descended on the presidential palace on Saturday, bringing with them a coffin, to protest the culling of livestock amidst the ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease. They had ...

European Union leaders failed to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a summit on Thursday to lift his blockade on a vital €90 billion ($103 billion) EU loan to Ukraine, officials ...

For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blunt. When President Donald Trump asked countries to join a global effort against Iran and deploy ...

Cyprus is set to receive financial support from the European Union to move forward with measures to combat the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), President Nikos Christodoulides said in ...

The European Union will continue to stand with Cyprus amid the instability caused by the developments in the Middle East, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said after her ...

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir told Reuters on Wednesday she is optimistic her country could join the European Union as early as 2028, adding she expects fisheries and agriculture ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that Cyprus has demonstrated in practice that European strategic autonomy is achievable, as he addressed policymakers in Brussels while holding key meetings on the ...

The Middle East crisis, the foot and mouth disease outbreak on the island and the way forward in the Cyprus problem are on President Nikos Christodoulides’ agenda on Wednesday, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will tell the leaders of other European Union member states of a need for the bloc to achieve further strategic autonomy when the European Council convenes later ...