#migration

By Michele Kambas As record numbers of Syrian refugees reach the shores of Cyprus, the Nicosia government wants the European Union to consider declaring parts of their war-torn homeland safe ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has highlighted the mounting pressures Cyprus has faced in recent years due to increased migrant and refugee flows. Speaking at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, ...

Police on Sunday said it arrested 33 people living in Cyprus illegally, as part of an operation which unfolded in Nicosia. Procedures to deport them are already underway, police specified. In ...

A draft bill on creating a deputy ministry of migration and asylum in Cyprus will likely be sent for a vote in the plenum after the Christmas holidays, as decided ...

The mayors of Yeri and Latsia, Neophytos Papalazarou and Christos Pittaras, have expressed their vehement opposition to the potential construction of new buildings to accommodate unaccompanied migrant children within their ...

The interior ministry on Monday presented the House finance committee with a budget more than 10 per cent higher than the year before, with its main focuses on housing policies, dealing ...

Significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move for Cyprus given the huge uptick in ...

An EU-wide mechanism to combat illegal migration was one of the main issues on the agenda on Tuesday during a meeting in Athens between Cyprus Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will discuss migration issues on Tuesday, in Madrid, with his Spanish counterpart, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez. According to a press release, during their meeting the two ...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Tarek Amara When Tunisian President Kais Saied this month rejected €60 million ($63 million) in EU aid, the bloc got a taste of the risks and challenges it ...

Cyprus has reached out to the EU for help including requesting items such as tents, after 194 migrants arrived to the island’s shores, it emerged on Sunday. The interior ministry ...

Coordinated action is needed to deal with possible new flows of refugees because of the Hamas-Israel war, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council ...

A 24-year-old migrant set himself on fire on Wednesday morning outside the migration services office in Larnaca. He is being treated for burn wounds at the Larnaca general hospital A&...

Cyprus is ready to take in refugees from the Middle East due to the crisis in Israel and Gaza, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday, while adding that in ...

Poland and Hungary blocked a symbolic European Union statement about migration on Friday but other leaders gathered at a summit in Spain said they were continuing overhauling the bloc’s ...

Poland accused Berlin and Brussels of imposing a migration “diktat” on the European Union and Hungary said the bloc was forcing through a deal as EU leaders gathered to tackle ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Friday participate in an informal summit of the European Council in Granada, Spain, which will focus on the future of the EU and the external ...

Slovakia will impose temporary controls on its border with Hungary due to a rising number of illegal migrants, the government said on Wednesday, a reaction to checks that the Czech ...

Migration, housing and traffic are the issues on which he is focused on President Nikos Christodoulides told the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) in Limassol on Wednesday afternoon. Referring to ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals, and promised a 10-point EU action ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Elias Hazou The government on Thursday decided to set up an interdepartmental team as a focal point for drawing up policies to stem the tide of ...

Tens of thousands of people from Cyprus emigrated to Australia. A new book details their journey to becoming local citizens Covering the journey taken by over 80,000 Cypriots to Australia, Professor ...

The issue of migration will be tackled in its entirety, President Nikos Christodoulides has said, stating that the issue was among his government’s seven policy priorities. His comments in ...

The police response was inadequate to the situation during the recent racial attacks in Limassol but this can only be solved by supporting the force with concrete actions, Isotita union ...