Reforms: A race against time
Cyprus hopes to tap some €1.2 billion from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Facility, in exchange for which it pledges to implement a series of...
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UCy secures €900,000 in funding for medieval study
The University of Cyprus has secured European funding of €900,000 for a project by the department of Byzantine and modern Greek studies, it was announced...
Municipalities have lost quarter of their income, Vyras says
Municipalities have lost at least 25 per cent of their income due to the Covid-19 pandemic and only have enough to pay staff wages, head...
Prestigious funding award for young scientist
A summer internship at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics sparked an interest in the body’s immune system for Andrew Santiago-Frangos By Annette Chrysostomou...
EC funding coming through for park linking both sides
The go-ahead has been given for the construction of a five-kilometre linear park along the Pedieos River in the north aiming to bring the two...
Gesy is the Titanic and in real danger of sinking
Gesy is underfunded and the limitations it is placing on the private sector will severely impact the quality of healthcare By Dr Theodoros Potamitis As...
Autistic son can stay at home
A mother who threatened to hand over her adult autistic son to the care of the state because of economic problems has been reassured by...
Wording of EP decision to channel more funds to north, angers Cypriot MEPs
The European parliament decided to increase funds channelled to the Turkish Cypriot community in order to safeguard the wellbeing of Maronites wishing to resettle and...
Church in Lefkoniko to have €390,000 face lift
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme on Monday announced the signing of a contract for conservation...
BoC’s Ackermann urges EU to pledge financial support for solution
The potential reunification of Cyprus affords the EU the opportunity to demonstrate its ideals and value of its policy, Bank of Cyprus chairman Josef Ackermann...
UCy computer science faculty secures €500,000 in European funding
The Computer Science faculty of the University of Cyprus has secured €500,000 in funding under the pioneering European UniServer programme. The UniServer project “A Universal...
UCy receives funding to map marine protected areas
The Oceanography Centre (OC) of the University of Cyprus (UCy) has received €45,000 from the European Union to map marine protected areas (MPA) in Cyprus and...
Cyprus set to lock in EU support for citrus sector
Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis is set to lock in additional EU support for the local citrus trees sector and agriculture in general in Brussels, as...
Work being done on funding a positive, not negative, development, spokesman says
The Cyprus problem will not be solved through public statements, which in many cases are designed to serve other considerations, but at the negotiating table,...
Anastasiades: too early to talk about amounts involved in cost of Cyprus solution (Updated after 5th para)
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday it was too early to talk about how much a solution would cost without having structured the various elements...
AKEL feels vindicated, DISY says it came clean a long time ago (updated)
By George Psyllides AKEL claimed on Wednesday it had been vindicated by the attorney-general’s report on alleged party donations from Focus Maritime since accusations that...
Our View: Despite optimism, funding is main stumbling block for any solution
PRESIDENT Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci said all the right things at the joint panel event in Davos. They both spoke about their determination and resolve...
Ministry says municipalities ‘being paid’ to clean refugee estates
By Andria Kades MUNICIPALITIES have stopped cleaning refugee estates citing an apparent lack of funding, with the interior ministry on Thursday hitting back saying local...
EBRD stepping up Cyprus support through BoC
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is stepping up its support for Cypriot exporters and importers with a €50 million trade facility to...
Eide: foreign governments studying funding options for Cyprus
Various governments and the EU are studying options for economic support to help fund the costs of a settlement in Cyprus, UN Special Adviser Espen...