#Nicos Anastasiades

By Achilleas Demetriades Recent events have raised concerns as to the government’s ability to handle the serious issues the country is facing. Efforts to cover up the huge responsibilies ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has expressed optimism that the new year ahead will be one of “creativity and hope”. In his televised address for the New Year, the president referred to ...

As expected, President Nicos Anastasiades has vetoed a bill passed by opposition parties to cut VAT on electricity bills from 19 per cent to 9 per cent across the board for an ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday he had an “extremely useful exchange” with French President Emmanuel Macron in the margins of the European Council in Brussels. “Absolute delight to talk ...

THE POLICE state is back in action and more forceful than ever before. It has a new excuse for picking up citizens and locking them up in quarantine prison – the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades departs for Madrid on Wednesday for meetings with the country’s monarch and the prime minister. On Thursday, Anastasiades will meet in the morning with Prime Minister ...

President Nicos Anastasiades rejected anew suggestions Wednesday that he was involved in setting shell companies abroad for personal enrichment after leaked documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, implicated the law firm ...

Opposition parties accused the authorities of lacking accountability and transparency after the presidency, the anti-money laundering unit (Mokas), and the Legal Service, did not show up in parliament during discussion ...

IT WAS extremely difficult to understand why Phil made such a big fuss about publishing the minutes of meetings held in Crans Montana four and half years ago. From the ...

Although the presidential election is still 15 months away and none of the opposition parties have started discussing alliances let alone possible candidates, Disy is already in a bit of tangle ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said Cyprus would do its best to help fulfil the objectives set out the Joint Declaration of the Paris International Conference on Libya, pointing out ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday stressed the need for collective action to effectively improve economic conditions and the health sector with equal access for all to Covid vaccines. In a ...

Cyprus will participate for the first time in the Conference on Libya, which French President Emmanuel Macron has convened in Paris, government spokesman, Marios Pelekanos, said on Wednesday. According to ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has intervened in the case between Paphos municipality and ERA Department Store – formerly ‘Korivos’ – allowing a nine-month suspension of a ruling issued by Paphos district court for ...

Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili will meet President Nicos Anastasiades during her official visit to the island on Tuesday to discuss developments in the Cyprus problem and the two countries’ bilateral ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday called out President Nicos Anastasiades over the affair where four of the president’s associates – previously contract workers – were effectively granted civil-servant status, with the ...

Cyprus will allocate more than €500 million by 2026 to policies to tackle climate change, President Nicos Anastasiades told the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Tuesday, as he pledged ...

It is not the title that’s important but the mandate, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday commenting on the expected appointment by the UN of a Cyprus envoy. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday queried whether the EU should continue to pursue its ‘positive agenda’ with Turkey, posing the question to his EU counterparts at the European Council summit ...

It could be said that one of the reasons President Anastasiades has had an unjustifiably good press in his eight years in office, is that he is extremely skilful at ...

The government on Thursday sought to downplay the fact that President Nicos Anastasiades was explicitly named in a resolution adopted by the European Parliament, where MEPs call for thorough investigations ...

A draft resolution by the European Parliament has called for an in-depth investigation by member states’ authorities to investigate politicians whose names appear in the Pandora papers, with the draft ...

CONGRATS to Xylophagou mayor Georgios Tasou and his municipal council for their publicity stunt with the big dick potato (BDP), of the Spunta variety, they have placed at the entrance ...

The government on Friday presented its new strategy for attracting businesses to Cyprus with emphasis, among others, on high technology, shipping, innovation, and research and development, in a bid to ...