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Cypriot MEPs on Saturday called on EU institutions to change their view that Turkey is seen as a strategic partner. They also highlighted the importance of Cyprus leveraging the opportunity ...

Members of the European parliament late on Wednesday night condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent visit to the north, with one describing him as “a neo-Ottoman tyrant and ...

While most of the 720 people who were elected as members of the European parliament a little over 100 days ago have kept their heads well below the parapet since, Fidias Panayiotou ...

Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou submitted a parliamentary question to the European Commission regarding the rule of law in Cyprus and the dismissal of the auditor-general, according to a post on ...

Cypriot MEPs Loucas Fourlas and Michalis Hadjipandela organised an awareness event on the Cyprus issue at the European Parliament, they said on Tuesday. The event was organised at the European ...

The unexpected win of an MEP seat by 24-year-old YouTuber Fidias Panayiotou, dubbed as the “Fidias Phenomenon” has been making the rounds of international news outlets with coverage ranging from ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday called for the highest possible turnout from Cypriot citizens in the upcoming European Parliament elections on Sunday, stating that it would send a strong message ...

Cypriot MEP candidates will officially submit their candidacies on Wednesday amid criticism of the interior ministry for making it difficult for those in place to attend the closing session of ...

The interior ministry on Monday urged would-be voters to “submit timely applications” to be registered on the electoral roll, as the deadline of April 2 for June’s elections near. The ...

A total of 4,488 new voters have so far registered on the electoral roll, chief returning officer Menelaos Vasiliou said on Monday. Among the new voters, 1,386 are Europeans residing in Cyprus. ...

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday she intends to visit Cyprus to encourage people on the island to vote in June’s European Parliament elections. Speaking to journalists, ...

The European Parliament is doing all it can to encourage Turkish Cypriots to vote in the upcoming elections for MEPs, its representative in Cyprus said on Friday. “We are doing ...

Cypriot MEP Demetris Papadakis on Monday introduced his new political party, named “Aichmi” – the Democratic Movement for Change, during a public gathering he organised. The former Edek MP Papadakis highlighted ...

Cypriot MEPs said on Thursday the country had been dragged through the mud during a European Parliament plenary session which discussed the latest revelations by the Cyprus Confidential reports, linking ...

Tighter anti-money laundering rules in light of the Cyprus Confidential investigation and also the lack of adequate legislative follow-up to Parliament’s inquiry into the use of spyware, are set ...

Political parties were informed on Wednesday of the changes which have taken place in the electoral system due to recently enacted local government reforms. In a meeting regarding next year’...

The European Parliament said on Monday it had begun a procedure to waive the immunity of two of its members after a request from Belgian judiciary investigating a European Union-Qatar ...

Attorney general George Savvides said on Wednesday the independent criminal investigator Ilias Stephanou’s findings on the infamous ‘spy van’ case in 2019 cannot be made public as they are part ...

Without clear and significant progress in EU-related reforms, the European Parliament cannot envisage resuming accession negotiations with Turkey, MEPs warned in a report adopted on Thursday. The report was adopted ...