#European Union

The return of US President Donald Trump to the White House is a wake-up call for European Union countries to fix their economies and become more competitive, the EU’s ...

Joining Europe’s Schengen zone is a “key priority” for Cyprus’ government, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with European Commissioner for internal affairs Magnus ...

Trust in institutions and the media is lower in Cyprus compared to the EU average, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey released on Thursday. The survey, conducted between October and ...

Almost three quarters of Cypriots “tend to not trust” the government or parliament and 56 per cent do not trust the EU, according to the autumn Eurobarometer. The tendency not to ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Monday night launched a scathing attack on the European Union’s “hypocrisy” on the Cyprus problem. Addressing a European Parliament session ...

Cyprus has received a total of €126 million net in funds from the EU for 2023 and is set to gain much more by 2027, Cypriot member of the European Court of Auditors (...

The EU is becoming irrelevant in talks regarding regional crises, namely the Middle East and Ukraine, and should set up a more substantive communication with the US, while Cyprus has ...

A decision on approving Hungary’s Oliver Varhelyi as the new EU commissioner for health and animal welfare has been postponed, a spokesperson for the European Parliament said on Monday. ...

The European Union must be united and coordinate closely in view of Donald Trump’s coming return to the White House, the leaders of the bloc’s two main powers, ...

After two days of intensive negotiations, the text for the post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focusing on farmers was not adopted due to disagreements, with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou referring ...

The Middle East crisis and the EU’s new institutional cycle are on the agenda of the Med9 ministerial meeting, to kick off at 9.30am at the new Nicosia town ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that it was vital to avoid any further military interventions in Lebanon. “Any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the ...

The Group of Seven (G7) countries want to reach a political agreement on the $50 billion loan for Ukraine by the end of October for the cash to be able to ...

In Brussels, the talk of the town is a report on the future of European competitiveness, calling for fundamental economic reforms to avoid a “slow agony” for the European economy. ...

France has asked the European Commission to extend beyond September 20 a deadline for submitting a plan to reduce its public deficit to align with Paris’ 2025 draft budget, La Tribune du ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he has asked the bloc’s members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for “hate messages” against Palestinians, ...

European Union foreign ministers will evaluate how to respond to trips by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia and China and his country’s positioning over the EU’s ...

The European Union announced sanctions against five Israeli individuals and three entities, describing them as responsible for “serious and systematic human rights abuses” against Palestinians in the West Bank and ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Unemployment was traditionally considered a major macroeconomic challenge, with ramifications extending well beyond the economy into the sphere of politics and society at large. ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou is travelling to Luxembourg to participate in the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, which will take place on Monday, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of ...

While Cyprus goes to the polls on Sunday to vote in local and European parliament elections on Sunday, the European Union’s 26 other member states have been simultaneously holding European ...

Support in Cyprus for leaving the European Union jumped by a whopping 12 per cent between 2019 and 2023, according to a report in French magazine Le Grand Continent using statistics from the ...

The government is investing in the European Union to achieve a final resolution of the Cyprus problem, especially as the 50th anniversary of the Turkish occupation approaches, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova voted on Thursday to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu’s policies, alongside a presidential election. Sandu ...