#European Union (EU)

Ireland and Cyprus have many things in common except one. Whereas membership of the EU helped rather than hindered the peace process in Northern Ireland, the opposite happened in Cyprus. ...

Turkish Cypriots in mixed marriages will be filing an appeal to the European parliament committee of petitions over the denial of Cypriot citizenship to their children, reports said on Wednesday. ...

Newly-elected President Nikos Christodoulides will do everything possible to achieve some kind of result during his informal meeting next week with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, he said on Sunday. ...

A broad coalition of insurers, leasing companies, car repair shops and others are calling on the European Commission to propose rules for fair access to valuable vehicle data soon, fearing ...

The European Union on Tuesday announced that it had added the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Marshall Islands and Russia to its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. This ...

Belgian prosecutors arrested one lawmaker and took another in for questioning on Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that has hit the European Parliament. The cash-for-influence scandal began in ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday he had a “productive” discussion with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels. “Productive exchange of views with ...

A 25-year-old from Nicosia was arrested in the early hours of Saturday after he had been sought since May following his return to the island from an unnamed European country, ...

EU countries agreed on Friday on a European Commission proposal to set price caps on Russian refined oil products, the Swedish presidency of the European Union said. EU diplomats said ...

European Union cities had the highest housing cost burden in 2021, according to a report published on Thursday by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical service. In Cyprus, the lowest rate ...

Three years after its departure from the European Union, Britain is yet to benefit from the Brexit dividend that was promised for its economy as it lags its peers on ...

European Union lawmakers backed a draft law on Tuesday to implement the final leg of post-financial global bank capital rules, adding “prohibitive” requirements to cover risks from cryptoassets. The European ...

Cyprus, showed the second highest increase in consumer spending since 2020, signalling partial recovery from the pandemic, according to data published by the European statistics agency. Specifically, in 2021 Cyprus recorded an ...

Russia could not have expected Cyprus to disagree with Europe’s collective decisions and ought to engage in a little self-criticism, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. Responding to statements ...

The European Union has drafted plans to require companies to back up green claims about their products with evidence, in a bid to fight greenwashing and misleading advertisements, according to ...

Cyprus ranks fifth among EU member states as regards absorption from the EU cohesion funds, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday. He added that the “challenge” now is to ...

At 17.1 per cent, Cyprus had lower household expenditure on housing, water, electricity, natural gas and other fuels in 2021 in comparison with the EU average of 25 per cent, according to Eurostat. ...

The European Union Health Security Committee said on Tuesday EU member states agreed on a “coordinated approach” to the changing COVID-19 situation, adding that included implications for increased travel from ...

Croatia rang in two historic changes with the new year, as the European Union’s youngest member joined both the EU’s border-free Schengen zone and the euro common currency, ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday urged health ministers across the bloc to assess their coronavirus protocols and be well prepared amidst a surge in infections in China. Health ...

By Olympia Stylianou Cyprus has joined the European Union as a unitary state with the application of the acquis communautaire suspended in its occupied part. Accession has brought us many ...

Cypriots still choose cash over cards – ranking amongst the top three nations in EU for cash use – but cards and other cashless instruments are quickly catching up. The Central Bank ...

The EU foreign policy chief told Iran’s foreign minister that Tehran should immediately halt military support for Russia and internal repression in Iran, reflecting worsening ties as diplomacy to ...

As a corruption scandal rocks the European Parliament, lawmakers and campaign groups say a lack of asset declarations, little reporting on contacts with third countries and barely any sanctions created ...