#European Union (EU)

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) announced on Thursday that nominations are now open for its Civil Society Award. The theme for this year’s award is “mental health”, ...

Turkey’s ambitions regarding its relationship with the European Union “pass through Cyprus”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Thursday. Kombos made the remark at the EU Foreign affairs council ...

The European Parliament on Tuesday urged Brussels and Ankara to break the current deadlock and find a “parallel and realistic framework” for EU-Turkey relations. In a report adopted on the ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Constantinos Kombos is traveling to London and Brussels for several engagements to discuss Cyprus and the Cyprus issue as well as EU-Turkey relations, an announcement from the ...

Amazon’s AMZN.O $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot IRBT.O may reduce competition and strengthen Amazon’s position as online marketplace provider, EU antitrust regulators warned ...

Eurozone business activity slipped into contractionary territory last month in a broad-based downturn across the bloc’s dominant services industry and a deepening decline of factory output, a survey showed. ...

The European Union’s General Court on Wednesday stripped the leader of Catalonia’s failed bid for independence from the legal immunity he had as a member of the European ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar told the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday that EU interference in the Cyprus problem “cannot be accepted” and negotiations can only start after ...

Steps on breaking the deadlock on the Cyprus problem were central to separate phone conversations President Nikos Christodoulides had with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. ...

By Efi Xanthou On Friday, June 23, the House of Representatives hosted a seminar presenting part of the Fit for 55 EU package, essentially the EU’s target of reducing net greenhouse ...

Brussels has been largely mute on President Nikos Christodoulides’ proposal for the EU to become more involved in the Cyprus issue, which he has been pushing since his election almost ...

The sustainable use of pesticide regulation in the EU will be among the topics discussed at the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers Council, which is taking place in Luxembourg on June 26...

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 ...