#House of Representatives

Parliament is facing legal and political turbulence after it emerged that the budgets for Cyprus’ five new district local government organisations were filed late, sparking warnings of possible unlawful spending. ...

Parliament on Thursday green-lit the 2025 budget for the National Solidarity Fund, making €100 million available this year to compensate savers and bondholders burned in the 2013 bank bail-in. With the budget approved, ...

MPs on Thursday handed the state health services organisation (Okypy) another lifeline, making the organisation eligible for direct state funding up until the end of 2026. Under the law voted through ...

The discussion of the government bill on Cyprus’ plan to join the Schengen zone – a target set by the government for some time next year – kicked off at the House ...

A joint declaration urging stronger EU action on sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture was adopted on Friday at the conference of the heads of agriculture committees from the national parliaments of ...

Speaking during an online seminar by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Alexandra Attalides said the situation in the Turkish-controlled north was worsening, with new pressures on women’s freedoms coming directly ...

A bill on small photovoltaic owners using the electricity they produce, forbidding switching off energy from renewable sources if that reaching the grid needs to be reduced, is being sent ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

The House plenum on Thursday passed a number of amendments to laws relating to traffic violations, in a bid to ease the burden of heavy fines on violators. Under the ...

Only 61 per cent of the Agency for Equal Distribution of Burdens’ budget for 2024 was spent, its chairman Akis Pouros said on Tuesday. He also told the House refugees committee that ...

Causing forest fires will now be punishable by severe out-of-court fines and court penalties, under legislation passed by the House on Thursday evening. By a wide majority, parliament passed a ...

Faulty Takata airbags had another day in the sun on Tuesday, as MPs discussed certain dealerships charging car owners to check if their airbags needed replacing, while answers provided by ...

A proposed bill, promising to offer relief to people with disabilities, was presented on Tuesday at the House labour committee and, following an open discussion over coming weeks, will be ...

The House plenary on Thursday evening passed a law imposing more severe criminal penalties on persons found guilty in a court of law of the offence of ‘usurping’ Greek Cypriot ...

The House on Thursday passed a law granting the commerce minister the authority to issue decrees setting a price cap on bottled water at designated points of sale. The government ...

Fuel prices in Cyprus are set to go up again in 2027, in harmonisation with an EU directive on emissions trading, the House environment committee heard on Wednesday. Chairman of the ...

Observing the law is an obligation for the public and more so for the state, the House legal committee MPs said on Wednesday, during discussions on the way people were ...

Parliament will return after its Christmas and New Year break with its first plenary session on January 16 preceded by a series of committee meetings starting January 7. The House refugee committee ...

On the final day of the debate of the state budget, a group of students gathered outside the House of Representative to protest against the cuts to their financial aid. ...

The three-day debate on the 2025 state budget got underway on Monday, with the proceedings set to wrap up on Wednesday evening with the vote at the House plenum. The first ...

Discussions on the issue of how to handle the recall of faulty Takata airbags are to be resumed in parliament on Monday, with reports of new proposals. The previously drafted ...

Monday afternoon marks the start of a three-day debate in parliament on the 2025 state budget, culminating in a vote by the plenary on Wednesday. Before the budget debate, work will ...

The House labour committee has set January 21, 2025, as the deadline for tabling a bill regulating the benefit policy for disabled people. The committee members said it was important to promote ...

The importance of the Council of Europe (CoE) was highlighted during an event on the ‘75 years of operation of the Council of Europe: Republic of Cyprus – benefits and prospects’, which ...