EU and US funds target Cyprus defence
A ministerial meeting chaired by President Nikos Christodoulides was held on Thursday in Nicosia, focusing on how Cyprus can make use of EU financial tools and American defence programmes that ...
Vasiliko port modernisation project to get €18m in EU funding
The expansion of the Vasiliko port project will receive €18,781,957 in funding as part of the European Union’s financing programme Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the transport ministry announced on Thursday.
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Nicosia mayor grilled over Makarios avenue traffic change
Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Thursday defended the municipality’s recent decision to partly reopen Makarios avenue to regular traffic, arguing that it was done to breathe life back into ...
EU allocates €390m for cybersecurity projects
The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) will allocate €390 million for cybersecurity projects under the Digital Europe Programme for the 2025-2027 period, it emerged on Sunday.
In a statement, the centre ...
National Guard to get €19m worth of PVs and storage systems
An EU-funded €19 million project to install 12MWp capacity photovoltaics and energy storage systems at 54 defence ministry and National Guard units within three years was signed on Wednesday.
The contract between ...
EU programme launched for Turkish Cypriot businesses
The European Commission on Wednesday announced the launch of a new programme aimed at supporting Turkish Cypriot businesses.
The project will allow Turkish Cypriot small and medium-sized businesses and startups ...
EU funds for Cyprus youth mental health project
The European Commission is to finance a project in Cyprus aimed at “strengthening the mental resilience” of youth in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday.
In addition to €500,000 in financial ...
Worries that EU funding for electricity connection at risk
Energy Minister George Papanastasiou refrained from commenting on Saturday over concerns that EU funding for the EuroAsia Interconnector is at risk due to delays in meeting milestones.
Speaking to the ...
EU funding to help TCs trade halloumi as PDO
The European Commission, under the aid programme for the Turkish Cypriots, on Thursday launched an EU-funded project to help in fully eradicating animal diseases that affect milk-producing livestock in the ...
Don’t waste a euro of EU funds, president tells cabinet
President Nicos Christodoulides pressed his new cabinet to not allow a single euro to go to waste from the available EU funds of the Recovery and Resilience programme.
In short, ...
Prodromou blames MPs for loss of EU funding
Parliament’s interference in the preprimary education law have led to Cyprus losing out on €12.2 million in EU funds that were set to go towards reforming the sector, Education Minister ...
Cyprus has absorbed 80% of EU funding since 2004
Lawmakers heard on Thursday that Cyprus has absorbed almost 80 per cent of EU funds allocated to it since joining the bloc – a good rate of absorption – but needs to keep ...