House passes Varosha resolution ahead of Security Council meeting (Updated)
By Evie Andreou and Peter Michael PRESSURE was building on Turkey late Friday ahead of a closed-door UN Security Council meeting on Varosha in New...
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House ready to ask banks whether certain PEPs received favourable treatment
Parliament will turn to the auditor-general, the central bank, and the financial ombudsman to find out whether any politically exposed persons (PEPs) had received favourable...
Deadline for asylum appeals cut from 75 to 15 days
Parliament on Friday amended the constitution to allow for a reduction in the time limit for filing appeals against the decisions of the asylum service...
House votes to accept president’s referral of PEP list
With a majority vote, parliament voted on Friday to accept the president’s referral back to lawmakers on the decision to publish the controversial list containing...
House president pledges to support civil society
Suggestions made by the second session of the parallel parliament for civil society will be taken on board by MPs when the House reconvenes after...
House passes resolutions on Hagia Sophia, and Kokkina, Pyroi crossings
MPs on Friday approved two resolutions, one condemning the decision by Turkey to convert Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and another calling on the...
Plenum ratifies EastMed pipeline deal
The House plenum on Friday ratified the agreement signed last January between Cyprus, Greece and Israel on the East Med pipeline aimed to connect the...
Georghadji hits out, says efforts afoot to discredit PEP list
Former central bank governor Chrystalla Georghadji hit back on Thursday at detractors of a list of names of politically exposed persons (PEPs) with non-performing loans,...
Our View: Syllouris hints at PEP list being published, chances are it won’t be
House President Demetris Syllouris threw out a bit of a teaser on Wednesday saying that on July 17, it would be decided whether or not...
PEPs list returned to House, back and forth continues
A controversial list of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and the money they owed banks, including bad debts, has been sent back to parliament after the...
House passes supplementary budget to cover government schemes
Parliament unanimously passed the third supplementary budget for 2020, worth just over €231m on Friday. The additional funds are intended to cover increased costs resulting...
Coronavirus: Parliament to stay where it is
House speaker Demetris Syllouris on Friday announced that the House of Representatives will continue to work from the Filoxenia conference centre until it breaks up...
House passes shop-hours regulation back to govt
Parliament on Friday voted to return the authority on regulating shopping hours back to the labour minister, thus ending a row spanning over five years....
Coronavirus: First House plenum at the Philoxenia to vote on slew of bills
A full plenum of parliament has got underway at the Philoxenia conference centre, and for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic all members will...
Coronavirus: House resumes work in physical environment (with video)
Parliament began ending remote working on Wednesday and resumed meetings in a physical rather than virtual environment at the Philoxenia conference centre in Nicosia. The...
Coronavirus: House votes to work from Philoxenia conference centre
By unanimous vote parliament on Thursday passed a decision, the upshot of which is that legislative business will be conducted at Nicosia’s Philoxenia conference centre...
Coronavirus: parties looking for alternative venues for House committee meetings
Parties were looking into alternative venues that meet health standards to house parliamentary committee meetings with participants having physical presence, it emerged on Friday. The...
Coronavirus: Political parties ponder reopening of parliament (Updated)
House President Demetris Syllouris on Monday exchanged views with representatives of the political parties on the reopening of the parliament plenary and committee meetings. The...
Coronavirus: plenum approves govt bills increasing fines (Updated)
The House plenum on Friday approved three government bills doubling to €300 spot fines for those found to violate the movement restrictions and allowing some...
Audit office says party funding by the state not adequately substantiated
A rise in regular party funding by the state in excess of 50 per cent between 2017 and 2018 was not adequately substantiated and was...
