#House of Representatives

A delegation of the European Affairs Committee of the Czech House of Representatives will arrive in Cyprus for a three-day visit on Tuesday, following an invitation by the House of ...

Following around four years of discussions, a bill creating an anti-corruption authority will finally go to the plenum this week, with an MP saying the outfit will establish Cyprus’ bona ...

House President Annita Demetriou said she would not be taking an executive role in the presidential election campaign of ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou, following reports last week that she ...

The legislature dives back into business this week and the next, with a packed agenda featuring a number of important bills and issues, starting with the presidential veto of a ...

Presenting the 2022 State Budget to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said the drawing of funds from European sources and programmes was a government priority. Cyprus ...

The measures taken by the government to fight the pandemic ought to be approved by parliament, Diko MP Zaharias Koulias said on Wednesday, after tabling the issue for discussion before ...

Parliament on Friday approved an opposition proposal to cut VAT on electricity bills from 19 per cent to 9 per cent across the board for an indefinite period. The proposal was passed ...

Party leaders decided on Monday that parliament will remain housed at the Philoxenia conference centre until July 2022. The House moved there last year because it was impossible to apply health ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Public opinion is watching, day in day out, developments linked to the Pandora papers, and some months before that, the Al Jazeera revelations. The Pandora papers issue ...

The House plenum on Thursday voted for the postponement of local government elections as part of the sector’s reform. The elections were to have taken place in December. Postponement ...

The House plenary will on Thursday ratify the composition of the 16 regular and one ad hoc parliamentary committee, as well as a newly established ethics committee for MPs, the Cyprus ...

The House selection committee meets tomorrow to assign MPs to the 16 House committees, amid speculation on whether smaller parties will be given a committee to chair, even though they do ...

U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Friday followed Donald Trump’s lead and elected Elise Stefanik to serve in their No. 3 leadership position, replacing Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic ...

The House of Representatives confirmed on Thursday that its website fell victim to a cyber-attack last month. In a statement, the House said the Digital Security Authority which investigated the ...

There were no indications the parliament’s website had been attacked by hackers on Monday, a senior official said. Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Minister Kyriacos Kokkinos said it had ...

Parliament on Monday said its website was under attack by a Turkish hacker and it would upload the promised list on bad loans of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and other ...

President of the House of Representatives Adamos Adamou said on Wednesday that Parliament must raise its standards and improve its image among the public who are turning their backs to ...

After the holiday season, the House of Representatives hopes to reconvene normally next week, most importantly with the revision of the state budget, which was voted down on December 17 forcing ...