#European Union (EU)

Cyprus must fully embrace the ‘Fit for 55’ package, a set of proposals aimed at revising and updating laws within EU member states to bring policies in line with a of ...

Farmers were on the streets again on Monday, making a nuisance of themselves, some might say, over EU regulations designed to cut pesticides, a very worthy endeavour it must be ...

An EU Commission delegation was in Cyprus for two days to carry out meetings over the island’s sanctions implementation and enforcement, it emerged on Tuesday. The purpose of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, in reviewing his first 100 days, that from the start of his presidency, his immediate priority was to initiate actions to seek a leading role ...

In view of the farmers’ protest in Nicosia on Monday, police have announced some road closures in the capital. Around 10.30am tomorrow the demonstrators in their tractors will move along ...

‘An imperfect system that works will be better than a bad one that doesn’t’ Migration has become the albatross around the EU’s neck, but a recent agreement aims ...

International donors pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.13 billion) at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels on Thursday to help Syria where an earthquake in February compounded the plight of a poverty-stricken population caught ...

Europe will not be whole until Cyprus is reunited, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said on Tuesday as she welcomed President Nikos Christodoulides to Strasbourg. “You are not ...

After three years of intense negotiations agreement has been reached for the creation of an EU solidarity mechanism on asylum seekers, Interior Minister Konstantinos Ioannou, announced late on Thursday on ...

European Union ministers agreed on Thursday on how to share out the responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, after 12 hours of negotiations got Italy and Greece to sign up ...

The eurozone economy was in technical recession in the first three months of 2023, data from European statistics agency Eurostat showed on Thursday, after downward revisions of growth in both the ...

The proposal set to reduce VAT to five per cent for the first 130 square metres of a first residence is set to head to plenum on Thursday, under pressure of ...

Our public buildings are supposed to be zero emission by 2026, just three years away Over the years we witnessed energy price surges quite a few times, but the situation became ...

The government will make full use of recommendations by the Group of States against Corruption (Grec), according to an official statement on Tuesday. The recommendations by the EU body on ...

I write simply to share my experience with readers which might be a unique occurrence or widespread. Sometime ago, the Cyprus Mail published an informative article about energy saving and ...

The resolution of the Cyprus issue is the highest priority and the EU has an important role to play in this, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said. President Nikos Christodoulides’ focus ...

Cyprus must achieve the absorption of €960 million in grants and €260 million in loans from the EU, European Council of Auditors member Lefteris Christoforou said on Tuesday after a meeting with ...

The EU will create an information and support centre for Cypriot businesses looking to cooperate across the Green Line, the European Commission said on Friday. Such a centre will be ...

During his upcoming visit to Berlin, President Nikos Christodoulides will explain in detail to the German Chancellor his proposal about the appointment of an EU envoy on Cyprus, the government ...

South Korea and the European Union agreed on Monday to step up cooperation on security amid tension over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and North Korean nuclear threats. South Korean ...

Europe’s growing dependence on imported critical raw materials (CRMs) should be viewed as a major concern, according to recent comments by Mark Rachovides, chairman of Cyprus mining company Venus ...

The EU’s latest draft of new sanctions against Russia would make it more difficult than originally proposed to cut trade with third countries over busting existing restrictions, a document ...

Cyprus had the most overcrowded prisons in EU in 2021, with almost 50% more prisoners than what the prison was designed to hold, according to data published by Eurostat on Friday. With ...

The reunification of Cyprus goes through the European Union, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday during the main Europe Day event and flag-raising ceremony that took place at Eleftheria ...