#migration

The government is hoping that an ΕU action plan to deal with irregular migration flows in the Eastern Mediterranean will be a permanent solution to Cyprus’ issue. The complexity Nicosia ...

The online platform to make appointments at the immigration department has been taken down and new arrangements will be in place as of Monday, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on ...

Cyprus is one of the success stories when it comes to stepping up on returns, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said on Tuesday during a press readout in ...

The European parliament on Monday will be discussing energy security, migration, asylum policy, spyware and foreign issues, in a plenary meeting lasting from Match 13 to 16, it was announced. The meeting ...

Pournara migrant reception centre is set to receive upgrades with funds of €25 million being approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. On Thursday, the minister said ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Monday admitted mistakes in the management of the citizenship-by -investment scheme, but said that by late 2020 – when the programme was nixed – many flaws had been ...

The government seems set on expanding the controversial barbed wire being erected along stretches of the buffer zone with works set to begin in Athienou. Wire fencing and metal gates ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

Cyprus and India on Thursday signed a letter of intent for a ‘migration and mobility partnership’, initiating the process for an eventual agreement on migration between the two nations. The ...

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is to visit on Thursday where a series of agreements are to be signed, ranging from migration and military cooperation to overseeing accession to ...

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...

Cyprus was disappointed that no agreement was reached in Brussels on Friday with regard to a proposed regulation to address situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said it was a necessary condition to strengthen the cooperation of the nine Mediterranean states, in order to turn the region into an area of ...

The interior ministry on Friday sought to demonstrate to EU partners how the UN buffer zone is the source of the problem where migration flows are concerned. Permanent secretary of ...

As a November 23 deadline approaches, the number of applications for 300 jobs policing the island’s 180-km long buffer zone against irregular migration has fallen short, with 147 people in total showing ...

Over 90 per cent want to see a cap on migration The vast majority of Cypriots, more than two thirds, feel dissatisfied, anxious and angry about the general state of affairs ...

Britain and France on Monday signed an agreement worth 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) over the coming year to ramp up efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous journeys across the ...

Uncontrollable immigration is closely linked to the lack of a solution “The knot has reached the comb” is a cry that it is often heard outside Kokkinotrimithia, near Nicosia, where ...

The 75 people wanted in connection with last week’s clashes at Pournara will be deported without a doubt, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday. Though Cyprus aims to help ...

Cyprus received on Monday 10 million Swiss francs (10.092m euros) as a donation to deal with the migration crisis at a ceremony in Bern, Switzerland attended by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. ...

The interior ministry plans to deport the asylum seekers involved in recent clashes at the overcrowded Pournara reception centre during which fires injured residents and security guards and destroyed equipment. ...

Officials on Thursday conceded they’re running out of ideas on how to stem the influx of irregular migrants, which has doubled this year compared to 2021. At the House interior ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s bullying of Cyprus and Greece has led to a deterioration in Turkey’s relations with the European Union, according to the latest European Commission report. ...

Enhanced surveillance of the EU’s external borders with a special provision for the Green Line in Cyprus was the focus of the joint declaration of the MED5 summit of ...