#House of Representatives

The 56 MPs elected or re-elected to parliament will take home €5,500 a month, while the House president makes far more, official data showed on Monday. According to state treasury data, the ...

A law passed by parliament and referred by President Nikos Christodoulides, allowing compensation to be paid to communities neighbouring the power plant in Dhekelia, has been found to contradict the ...

Exactly 753 people filed candidacies for the forthcoming parliamentary elections on Wednesday, as official registrations for those vying to win one of the 56 seats in the House took place. Those candidates ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation extending the time period during which people applying for a permit for their first home may benefit from discounted VAT. Three years ago, regulations ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he was leaving open the possibility of referring the foreclosure laws back to the House, as many aspects needed to be examined. The laws, ...

A law requiring compensation for surplus electricity generated by photovoltaic systems has been referred back to parliament on Thursday by President Nikos Christodoulides. The decision was taken following the law’...

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Friday described parliament’s decision to abolish the social support body as “regrettable”. The House voted to dismantle the body, which provided financial assistance to ...

The House plenary on Thursday passed a law aiming to curb the granting of permits for commercial solar parks, in a stated bid to protect arable land as well as ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a resolution calling on the government to disclose to parliament donations to the social support fund, a charity previously chaired by the ...

MPs on Tuesday stressed that updated legislation for the disabled must pass before the House dissolves ahead of the May parliamentary elections, even as groups representing persons with disabilities complained ...

The unauthorised publication of ‘deepfakes’ is now a criminal offence, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. A deepfake is synthetic media – images, video, or audio – created using advanced ...

The House on Thursday passed a law extending to the end of March the deadline for payment of road tax, citing glitches with online payments on the website of the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law providing for stiffer fines for fly-tipping, but at the same time MPs cautioned that lax enforcement makes the legislation a dud. The bill ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded that the government temporarily suspend charging farmers for using water from boreholes, a move farmers say could deal them the final blow and drive them out ...

The House finance committee met behind closed doors on Wednesday as parties are under continued pressure to finalise the government’s tax reform package. On Tuesday, finance ministry officials and ...

The House education committee on Wednesday began talks with the education ministry and teachers’ unions, as the formal debate on the proposed teacher evaluation bill gets under way. Committee chairman ...

The House institutions committee discussed a proposed law to regulate donations and contributions to public authorities and private organisations, the committee announced on Wednesday. The law, submitted by MP Alexandra ...

The budget of the deputy ministry of research for 2026 will rise by €5.4 million to a total of €172,864,636, Deputy Minister Nicodemos Damianou told the House finance committee on Friday. The increase ...

Parliament on Thursday doubled down on a law it had passed earlier this month compelling the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) to spend a specified amount as compensation to residents ...

Political parties with seats in the House of Representatives will receive around €15 million in state grants for the year 2026, according to data made available on Monday. The amount is divided ...

The first compliance report following the Republic’s evaluation by Europe’s group of states against corruption (Greco) in October 2023 was presented by head Cyprus’ delegation to Greco Alexia Kalispera ...

The House committee on labour has given the government three weeks to present its final position on a bill seeking to exclude agricultural subsidies from the Cyprus agricultural payments organisation (...

Opposition parties on Monday generally gave the thumbs-down to government policies as elucidated in the state budget for 2026, noting that although some key economic indicators are positive, these do not ...

Parliament on Thursday passed regulations relating to the identification of owners of pay-as-you-go mobile phones, who have until November 10 to register their name. The regulations aim to end the anonymity ...