#European Union

The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...

Progressive reduction of fossil fuel-based plastics is crucial to tackling climate change, the EU‘s top environmental official said, ahead of a United Nations meeting to launch talks on a ...

The EU’s executive on Monday rejected suggestions it waited until New Year’s Eve to publish divisive proposals to allow some natural gas and nuclear energy projects to be ...

The European Union and the Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People Valdis Dombrovskis launched an initiative this week to further restrict tax evasion through the use of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy in the EU is gradually improving, despite the continuing pandemic. The historically unprecedented monetary and fiscal support was a decisive factor, which ...

The European Commission will propose on Wednesday a new trade defence measure designed to combat non-European Union countries wielding undue pressure on any of the bloc’s members, but the ...

It’s possible that the tide which brought hard-right populist governments to power in a number of Central European countries is starting to go out again. In the Czech Republic, ...

The catastrophic failure that is the EU’s agricultural policy, CAP Farmers should receive state support because they are vital to a vital sector and it can be very hard – ...

The world’s first carbon border tax proposed by the European Union is likely to hit Russia the hardest but leave Chinese trade relatively unscathed, according to a joint study ...

Defence has always been something of sacred cow. Everyone has the patriotic duty to support our military and applaud government expenditure on defence equipment, whatever it is and regardless of ...

Three new conditions reported by a small number of people after vaccination with COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna are being studied to assess if they may be possible side-effects, ...

We can rediscover our common interests only after a reality check In the East Med we have been side-tracked by the fallacious promise or expectation of riches to come out ...

By Αnna Kythreotou The refugee crisis is an ongoing humanitarian crisis, which has an impact on Cyprus as well as the rest of Europe. The rights of refugees safeguarded under ...

The University of Cyprus (UCY) has established a new Europe Direct centre at the Stelios Ioannou library, aiming to provide information about the European networks operating in Cyprus. The inauguration ...

A digital levy to be proposed by the European Commission in the coming weeks to fund its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will apply to hundreds of companies, the majority ...

The European Commission plans to update its rules on worker safety to reflect the shift millions of employees made to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and to reflect ...

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

* Britain-Norway trade worth £20 bln in 2020 * Britain-Iceland trade worth £558 mln in 2020 Britain has clinched post-Brexit trade agreements with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein as it seeks to forge new global trading relationships ...

by Kyriacos Nicolaou Both iPhones and smartphones using Google’s Android operating system come bundled with pre-installed applications, but is this beneficial to the consumer? An increasing number of experts ...

Cyprus will not be able to take full advantage of ample EU covid aid unless it is willing to undertake major reforms In recent days there has been much advertising ...

The European Union’s executive recommended on Monday that foreign citizens fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and those coming from countries with a good epidemiological situation be allowed to travel into ...

By Jan Strupczewski Years from now, 2021 may be seen as the moment the European Union took a leap forward from its post-World War Two birth as a coal and steel ...

The European Union on Wednesday threatened to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that ...