Efforts to reform local government in jeopardy, union warns
The union of municipalities warned on Thursday that the effort to reform local government sector was leading to failure, as more and more communities declare...
Municipal mergers
Government guarantees jobs under municipal mergers
The government on Tuesday inched closer to its ambitious plan to overhaul local government, signing an agreement with municipalities guaranteeing job and pension security for...
Communities seeking to fiddle with municipal mergers
Delegates representing local communities conveyed to the government on Monday their opposition to being merged with municipalities, but it appears the horse-trading over who ends...
State respects reactions to municipal mergers but benefits to citizens ‘the priority’, president says
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said reactions to the proposed bill on municipality mergers were respected but that the priority was on the ultimate benefits...
Our view: Local government reform needed but numbers don’t add up
Nobody could have expected the interior ministry’s proposal for the reform of local government, which was unveiled on Monday, to have received universal approval because...
Party interests, expediencies said behind proposed mergers
The proposed mergers of municipalities and communities as part of the local government reform were greeted with a mixed response on Tuesday as some said...
Government presents local government reform plan, 17 new municipalities (Update 2)
Outgoing Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday presented the government’s flagship local government reform which will see the number of municipalities almost halved through wide-ranging...
Karousos says appointment not linked to rows over municipal mergers
The appointment of Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos as transport minister is not linked to the issue of which municipality Ayia Napa will merge with,...
Battle for sweeping local government reform
A key part of sweeping local authority reform is expected to conclude on Monday when Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides is due announce the government’s proposal...
Mayors agree with mergers but problems remain over with who
Most mayors seem to be on board with local government reforms, and while the interior ministry appears to have cleared the first hurdle sticking points...
Yeroskipou protests future merger with Paphos
Yeroskipou residents on Wednesday said they were against their community merging with Paphos municipality as part of the local government reform without holding a referendum...
Aglandjia mayor one of few to support municipal mergers
Aglandjia mayor Charalambos Petrides said on Friday he was in favour of plans to reform the local authority system that may see his jurisdiction merge...
Our View: Municipalities objecting to mergers not thinking of residents
A day rarely goes by without some mayor declaring that his municipality should not be merged with another as part of the reform of local...
‘No final decision’ on merging local authorities yet, ministry says
No final decision has been taken yet on which municipalities will be merged as part of the drive for local government reform, the interior ministry...
Minister lashes out at municipal ‘kingdoms’ fighting reform
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides charged on Wednesday that certain local authorities, which he did not name, have started gathering signatures against merging with other municipalities...