Cyprus has lowest number enrolled in vocational education
Cyprus has the second-lowest number of pupils enrolled in vocational education at the upper secondary level in the European Union and the least percentage of...
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Turkey in Syria and Cyprus EEZ on agenda of EU FMs meeting (Update 1)
EU member states will discuss how far they are ready to go on some measures that are on the table when it comes to the...
Foreign minister leaves for Luxembourg, Turkey’s EEZ violations on agenda
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides leaves on Sunday for Luxembourg to attend the EU Foreign Affairs and General Affairs Council meetings on Monday and Tuesday respectively. ...
Political equality: think European
There is no common understanding of the meaning of political equality or its content. Part of the problem lies in the phrase political equality itself...
French frigate in Cyprus’ EEZ, naval exercise underway (Update 2)
A French frigate was confirmed to be in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Saturday as part of naval exercise between the two countries, as...
Cyprus, Malta lead EU ranking of $1.6 trillion assets held offshore
European Union taxpayers held assets worth at least $1.6 trillion offshore in 2016, equal to nearly 10 per cent of the bloc’s output, the European...
Disy completes contacts in Brussels to squash direct trade regulation
A delegation of ruling Disy, led by party leader Averof Neophytou, completed their contacts in Brussels on Thursday in a lobbying drive to keep suppressed...
EU calls on Ankara to respect Cyprus’ sovereign rights, targeted measures discussed with Mogherini (Update 2)
By George Psyllides and Lizzy Ioannidou The EU urged Turkey on Friday to respect the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus, as targeted measures...
Cypriot MEP Kizilyurek pressing EU to make Turkish an official language
Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek is pressing the EU to expedite procedures for the introduction of Turkish as an official EU language, it emerged on Tuesday....
Major boost for asylum service ‘will speed up processing’
Cyprus on Thursday signed a permanent hosting agreement with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the first EU country to do so in order to...
80 years after 1939, Europe’s far right scents power again
By Peter Apps Last week, as Europe commemorated the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two, the far-right Alternative for Germany became the...
FACTBOX-Who gets the key posts in new European Commission?
Incoming EU executive president, Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, unveiled her 27-strong team on Tuesday. The following are key posts in the new European Commission,...
Commission releases €7.9m for rural development in Cyprus
The European Commission is set to release €7.9 million for Cyprus` rural development programme. The amount was initially withheld pending intermediate targets that needed to...
Cyprus seeking more EU funding for 2021-2027 period
Cyprus is seeking more European funds under the EU’s next budget for the period 2021-2027 to address a number of challenges arising from being a...
Anastasiades meets EBRD chief and EU budget commissioner
President Nicos Anastasiades met on Monday morning with the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Suma Chakrabarti, at the presidential palace,...
Kyriakides expected to take on EU’s health and food safety portfolio
Disy MP Stella Kyriakides who was chosen by President Nicos Anastasiades as Cyprus’ new commissioner in the EU is expected to be assigned the portfolio...
Cyprus among top three EU performers in recouping VAT
EU countries lost €137 billion in Value-Added Tax (VAT) revenues in 2017, according to a study released by the European Commission on Thursday. Cyprus with...
Italian PM Conte appeals to 5-Star members to back new government
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday urged members of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to back a new coalition with the opposition Democratic Party (PD), saying...
East Med should be among areas of possible EU naval deployment, defence minister says
EU defence ministers on Thursday discussed ways to coordinate the deployment of naval forces in “areas of interest” during an informal meeting in Helsinki, Defence...
British opposition parties unite to try to force PM to seek Brexit delay
Opposition parties said they would try to pass a law which would force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek a delay to Britain’s departure from...
