Greece wants EU to look at fully suspending customs union with Turkey (updated)
Greece is asking the European Union to examine the possibility of fully suspending customs union with Turkey, it emerged on Tuesday, as Cyprus Foreign Minister...
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Breast cancer screeings in Cyprus third lowest in EU
Cyprus has the third lowest percentage of women who are screened for breast cancer in the EU, a Eurostat report published on Wednesday shows. In...
Anastasiades to travel to Brussels for European Council summit
President Nicos Anastasiades will travel to Brussel on Wednesday for a European Council summit that will last two days Anastasiades will raise the issue of...
Borrell expresses EU’s grave concerns over Varosha
High Representative of the EU Josep Borrell reiterated the bloc’s “grave concerns” over the partial reopening of Varosha and called for the immediate reversal of...
Appeasing Turkey will not work, president tells EU (Updated)
Turkey’s latest illegal actions towards Cyprus should make the island’s European partners reassess their belief that appeasing Turkey will make it end its provocations, President...
Cyprus among smallest importers of extra face masks per capita in 2020
Cyprus has had one of the smallest per capita imports of extra face masks in the EU in the first half of 2020, at €8...
Our View: Sanctions would not stop Turkey’s unlawful actions
Political decisions are always judged by their results. Politicians could have the best intentions, but when they overestimate their powers or make wrong calculations in...
Cyprus: the mouse that roared for a week
Unless the Cyprus problem is solved sanctions against Turkey are a means to a dead end CYPRUS’ political equality as a member of the EU...
Kyriakides says pandemic brings opportunity for change
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides on Saturday spoke of both the serious effects and the opportunities of the Covid-19 pandemic in...
Anastasiades: ball now firmly in Turkey’s court (Updated)
The EU’s summit conclusions on Turkey place the ball firmly in its court which must now decide whether to take the path of legality or...
EU leaders break Belarus deadlock, kick can down the road on Turkey sanctions (update 2)
EU leaders broke a diplomatic deadlock in the early hours of Friday and imposed sanctions on Belarus after hours of summit talks, assuring Cyprus that...
Over 4,000 asylum applications in Cyprus recorded in 2020
Cyprus saw a total of 4,393 asylum applicants up to August this year, according to data disclosed by the interior ministry’s asylum service. Of the...
Cyprus set to be ‘remade’
With €1bn in EU recovery grants, the scope of the changes is said to be unprecedented By Andrew Rosenbaum IN WHAT is being seen as...
Anastasiades leaves Wednesday for crucial EU Council summit
President Nicos Anastasiades leaves on Wednesday for Brussels in order to participate in the Special European Council, on September 24 and 25. Among the issues...
Cyprus digs in heels on Belarus sanctions, says EU must be consistent
Despite an appeal by the country’s main opposition leader, European Union foreign ministers failed to agree sanctions against Belarusian officials on Monday, as Cyprus dug...
Turkey’s activities in East Med at centre of talks with Greek president (updated)
Greece’s President Katerina Sakellaropoulou started a two-day visit to Cyprus saying she had discussed the EU’s response to Turkey’s unlawful actions in the eastern Mediterranean...
EU foreign ministers to discuss east Med, recent developments (updated)
Today’s EU’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting will discuss the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an update on the latest situation, but according to...
EU’s Belarus sanctions ‘taken hostage’ by Cyprus – reports
Cyprus could potentially derail EU sanctions against Belarus, over the bloc’s delay in imposing similar measures on Turkey, reports said on Friday. The EU has...
Britain not acting in breach of international law
According to the EU-UK withdrawal agreement and the Vienna Convention on treaties pacta sunt servanda: treaties are binding on the parties and must be performed...
Our View: Securing sanctions against Turkey has become an end in itself
FOR SOME time now, the Anastasiades government has been on the offensive, accusing the EU of a ‘policy of appeasement’ towards Turkey, of ‘practising double...
