British MEP calls for actions against Cyprus at European Parliament
British Liberal Democrat MEP Phil Bennion made a call at the European Parliament on Tuesday for action against Cyprus regarding the mismanagement of the solid...
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Former MEP suggests setting up international peacebuilding institute post-solution
Former MEP for Akel Takis Hadjigeorgiou presented a proposal on Wednesday for the creation of an international peacebuilding organisation or institute on the island in...
Cypriot MEP Kizilyurek pressing EU to make Turkish an official language
Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek is pressing the EU to expedite procedures for the introduction of Turkish as an official EU language, it emerged on Tuesday....
Kizilyurek says his election is an opportunity for two sides to work together
Turkish Cypriot MEP-elect Niyazi Kizilyurek said Thursday he was a candidate in last Sunday’s elections as a European citizen living on the island and not...
Extra protection for MEP whose website was hacked
MEP Eleni Theocharous will be getting an extra police guard after her personal website was attacked by a Turkish hacker group earlier this month, reports...
Hungarian MEP: pigs’ heads would deter migrants at border fence
A Hungarian member of the European Parliament has sparred with a human rights campaigner and caused an outcry on Twitter after writing that pigs’ heads...
Next-in-line to Theocharous declared for MP seat
Chief Returning Officer Constantinos Nicolaides on Tuesday declared Solidarity’s Giorgos Papadopoulos an MP for the Limassol district, replacing party leader Eleni Theocharous, who was initially...
Theocharous under fire for ‘lack of trust’ comment
An old spat between Solidarity leader Eleni Theocharous and University of Cyprus professor Stavros Zenios was rekindled on Sunday, after the MEP justified her decision...
AG weighs in on Theocharous, MP seat will go to Solidarity’s next in line
The parliamentary seat Solidarity leader Eleni Theocharous has won and chosen to forego in favour of her seat in the European parliament will go to...
Eleni Theocharous opens can of worms with defence of MEP seat
SOLIDARITY movement leader Eleni Theocharous’ controversial decision to keep her post in the European parliament and pass on the seat she won in last week’s...
Theocharous decides to stay an MEP
Eleni Theocharous, leader of Solidarity Movement decided on Monday to give up her newly elected post as MP and instead continue to serve as an...
Theocharous plans to run for president in 2018
Eleni Theocharous, MEP and leader of the recently-formed Solidarity Movement, broke the news on Thursday that she would be running for president in 2018. The...
Danish MEP quits party over plan to take refugee valuables
By Sabina Zawadzki A member of the European Parliament from Denmark’s centre-right ruling party has defected to a left-wing party in protest at government plans...
Theocharous, Zenios trade barbs over MEP seat
By Angelos Anastasiou DISY leader Averof Neophytou’s refusal to comment on last week’s departure of MEP Eleni Theocharous from the party did little to prevent...
MPs annoyed at €60,000 cut in travel expenses
By George Psyllides MPs think €590,000 was not enough to pay for their trips abroad and to entertain foreign officials in Cyprus and are threatening...
Christoforou takes up MEP mantle
DISY MP Lefteris Christoforou was officially declared an MEP on Monday, in a ceremony at the Interior Ministry. Christoforou, who came third on the DISY...
AKEL keeps election spending down
ANTI-TROIKA opposition party AKEL pressed its own austerity button for last month’s European Parliament election campaign, spending less than a quarter of the budget spent...
Should you, shouldn’t you cast your vote?
By Loucas Charalambous THE DILEMMA troubling a large number of citizens (perhaps the majority if opinion polls are anything to go by) is whether they...
Go mad and vote in the EU elections
By Hermes Solomon ALMOST TWO weeks ago I decided to undergo a ‘minor’ medical intervention that most men of three score years and ten plagued...
The European Parliament gravy train
By Elias Hazou WITH THE typical Member of European Parliament (MEP) making a neat €200,000 a year – not including perks – it’s little wonder...
