Coronavirus: House approves raft of bills to shore up economy (Update 1)
Parliament on Friday approved a raft of bills aimed at shoring up the economy to withstand the fallout from the coronavirus crisis. In a closed-door...
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Karousos backs up Syllouris’ pledge to give cash for new parliament to Covid-19 fight
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos stepped in on Wednesday to back House President Demetris Syllouris who has said the budget for the building of a new...
House plenum to observe gatherings ban
The House plenary session on Friday will be observing the order banning gatherings of more than 75 people, which means only the 56 MPs and...
House president defends MP ethic plan: it’s not ‘the Syllouris code’
ALTHOUGH mocked and ridiculed by the media for the code of ethics for deputies presented a couple of weeks ago, House president Demetris Syllouris has...
Bill in pipeline to control unwanted flyers
Environment commissioner Klelia Vassiliou is to discuss a bill controlling the distribution of advertising flyers with the finance and transport ministers. A draft law has...
Bank charges to be scaled back by decree to be issued next week
Financial authorities are to issue a decree to scale back on excessive bank charges, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides and Central Bank Governor Constantinos Herodotou jointly...
House postpones vote on expanding state-limo use
Parliament on Friday postponed a vote on regulations increasing the number of state officials allowed to use a government car outside officer hours. The vote...
House passes law incentivising early retirement in public sector
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday, giving incentives to public-sector employees to apply for early retirement without any reduction in their benefits,...
MPs will pass a law regulating parliament’s own audit mechanisms
Parliament will pass a law regulating its external auditing, parties said on Thursday, as they sought to play down suggestions that House President Demetris Syllouris...
Pushback against House speaker’s opposition to auditing parliament
Opposition Diko said Wednesday it opposed efforts by House President Demetris Syllouris to stop audit service scrutiny by citing the legislature’s financial autonomy. The matter...
Legal affairs committee to meet on phone tapping
The House legal affairs committee will convene on Friday to discuss the law on phone surveillance after the president vetoed two amendments passed by opposition...
More restrictions to be placed on released child-sex offenders
CONVICTED child-sex offenders will be more strictly supervised after their release from prison, according to a draft legislative amendment prepared by the House legal affairs...
House President Syllouris and delegation to visit China
HOUSE President Demetris Syllouris leaves for China on November 3, heading a delegation, that will visit the country at the invitation of the Chinese National...
MPs vote to strip cabinet of power to grant, lease, or exchange state land
Parliament on Friday voted to strip the cabinet of the power to grant, lease, or exchange state land after the values published recently by the...
House approves bill to subsidise salaries of priests
Parliament on Friday approved a government bill to subsidise the salaries of the clergy based on a so-called agreement struck between the state and the...
New neutering law will bankrupt animal shelters, dissenting MPs tell plenum
The House plenum on Friday passed new regulations, which among other things provide that dogs must be neutered before they leave temporary shelters but some...
‘Skyscrapers are not mushrooming…Cyprus won’t turn into a Manhattan’, says Petrides
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides pledged on Thursday that Cyprus would not be turned into Manhattan during House discussions on his ministry’s budget when the topic...
Around €11m to be divvied up among the parties as 2020 expenses
Some €11m of taxpayer money will be divvied up among political parties for their expenses in 2020, €4m of which going to the salaries of...
Over 8,000 domestic workers unaccounted for, no clue as to their whereabouts
Around 8,500 domestic workers have been reported missing by their employers, the House ethics committee heard on Wednesday, saying it would investigate the issue. Although...
Solidarity’s Papadopoulos sworn in after getting House seat back
The Solidarity Movement’s Giorgos Papadopoulos was on Tuesday declared an MP for the third time after a parliament decision to return the seat to him...
