Responsibility for refugees must be shared EU wide
By Αnna Kythreotou The refugee crisis is an ongoing humanitarian crisis, which has an impact on Cyprus as well as the rest of Europe. The...
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New migrant housing to help speed up asylum bids
Limnes migrant detention centre in Menoyia on Wednesday received a donation of 80 housing units from the Polish embassy to help speed up processing asylum...
EU says Cyprus not ready to join Schengen area
Cyprus is not yet ready to enter Schengen, the EU’s region of free movement, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said on Wednesday. The Schengen area, which...
Nouris describes migrant situation as a ‘state of emergency’
Cyprus has notified the EU it cannot accept any more irregular migrants, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Friday as authorities scrambled to accommodate some...
EU should concentrate on effective return of third country nationals, says Nouris
The EU’s priorities for cooperation with third countries should concentrate on the effective return of third country nationals, on combating smuggling and monitoring EU external...
Coronavirus: Migration department halts in-person service
The civil registry and migration department is halting in-person service to the public because of a large number of positive coronavirus cases In an official...
Cyprus asks Frontex to stop migrants sailing to north
Cyprus has asked EU borders agency Frontex marine patrols to halt migrants sailing from Turkey`s southern coast to the island`s north Interior Minister Nicos Nouris...
Cyprus will fail to stem migration until EU acts, Nouris says
Cyprus will fail to manage the migration flow to the island unless the EU adopts a “coordinated, fair and balanced” policy which would be tailored...
Large migration flow ‘a threat to demographics’, govt says
Cyprus has been receiving the biggest flow of migrants in proportion to its population, which is threatening to change its demographics, a presidential aide said...
Walk of understanding for migrants
Local activist has called on people to walk in migrants’ shoes this Saturday in a 20km hike from Kokkinotrimithia to Nicosia’s old city centre. Starting...
Nouris calls EU27 to ensure implementation of EU-Turkey statement on migration
Interior Minister Nikos Nouris on Monday called on the EU to take action to ensure compliance with the 2016 EU-Turkey statement on migration. He made...
78 per cent of asylum claims are bogus says minister
More than three quarters of migrants who arrive in Cyprus and apply for asylum are not refugees, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday in...
Swiss voters clearly reject curbs on EU immigration
Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday a right-wing party’s attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European Union, opting...
House passes three laws to better manage migrant flow
The House plenum on Friday passed three law amendments aimed at more effectively managing migration flows to Cyprus with main opposition Akel expressing concerns as...
Forty migrants arrive via north
Forty migrants who arrived early on Friday from the north have been taken to the Pournara reception centre, police said. The group, 17 of whom...
Municipality moves against building overcrowding in old Nicosia
Nicosia municipality has taken legal measures against the owners of more than 40 buildings in the old part of town for arbitrarily turning them into...
Migrants arrive through Dhekelia, separate group deterred, heading for north (Updated)
Fifteen migrants from Syria crossed into Dhekelia from the north at around midnight on Wednesday, while a second group that was heading for Cape Greco...
Aglantzia protest over plans for asylum centre (Updated)
Aglantzia residents in Nicosia held a protest on Wednesday night over feared moves to set up an asylum centre in the area. The protest, organised...
Cypriot and Hungarian delegations discuss tourism, Covid and migration
President Nicos Anastasiades met with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Friday, to discuss dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism relations between the two countries,...
Lack of integration programmes leading to ghettoisation
As the government announced tough new measures this week to curb illegal migration, the need for effective, long-term integration programmes for refugees and asylum seekers...