Posts tagged with "parliament"

Parliament wants to be more people-centric Cyprus

Parliament wants to be more people-centric

May 10th, 20191374 THE House of Representatives on Friday decided on the creation of a parallel parliament aimed at reaching out more to constituents, which will start operating in September. The parallel chamber will have a coordinated interactive relationship with society and residents in order to highlight the various problems in civil society and to...
House condemns Turkey’s actions in EEZ Cyprus

House condemns Turkey’s actions in EEZ

May 10th, 20191992 Parliament on Friday condemned Turkey’s actions inside the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and demanded measures from the international community and the European Union that will have tangible consequences on Ankara. House President Demetris Syllouris has also written a letter to the president of the European Parliament,...
Parliament censures US over Golan Cyprus

Parliament censures US over Golan

April 19th, 20191986 Parliament on Friday approved a resolution censuring the US recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory and called on America to rescind its decision and Israel to withdraw from the territory. The resolution, submitted by main opposition Akel, was approved with 32 votes in favour and 16 abstentions – all ruling Disy...
House ratifies Cyprus-Egypt deal on subsea gas pipeline Cyprus

House ratifies Cyprus-Egypt deal on subsea gas pipeline

April 12th, 20192269 An agreement between Cyprus and Egypt on a direct subsea natural gas pipeline between the two countries was ratified on Friday by the House plenary. The agreement was ratified with 34 votes in favour and 16 abstentions. The bill which was urgently tabled for a vote on Friday, was discussed earlier at parliamentary committee...
Opposition parties want finance minister's resignation (Updated) Cyprus

Opposition parties want finance minister's resignation (Updated)

April 12th, 20193204 Following a stormy debate, parliament on Friday passed a resolution by majority vote calling on the finance minister to resign over the demise of the co-op bank or be dismissed by the president. The non-binding motion, passed with the votes of opposition parties, 32 to 17, also urged the attorney-general to investigate the collapse...
Vote on Brexit bill covering UK expats in Cyprus postponed until next week Cyprus

Vote on Brexit bill covering UK expats in Cyprus postponed until next week

April 6th, 20195507 Friday’s vote at the plenum on a proposed bill seeking to establish the free movement in the Republic of Cyprus of UK nationals and of Cypriot nationals living in the UK in the case of a hard Brexit was postponed for one week to give time to lawmakers to study the bill in more detail. Following discussion of the bill during an...
Disy-Akel clash over co-op, Laiki, as accusations fly (Updated) Cyprus

Disy-Akel clash over co-op, Laiki, as accusations fly (Updated)

April 4th, 20191548 POLITICIANS on Thursday seized the opportunity to try and score points off one another during an often-heated debate at the House plenum on the report outlining the reasons for the demise of the co-op bank. Disy leader Averof Neophytou triggered a lively exchange with main opposition Akel, when in his remarks he alluded to the...
Call for more support for bicommunal committee on cultural heritage Cyprus

Call for more support for bicommunal committee on cultural heritage

March 26th, 20191234 Parts of Kyrenia castle are in need of restoration while many other monuments are crumbling, MPs said on Tuesday while calling for more financial support for the bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage. The Greek Cypriot chair of the committee, Takis Hadjidemetriou on Tuesday briefed the House refugee committee on the work...
House plenary to convene extraordinary debate on co-op collapse Cyprus

House plenary to convene extraordinary debate on co-op collapse

March 23rd, 20191125 The House plenary will hold an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, April 4, to debate the report of the investigative committee on the collapse of the Cyprus Cooperative Bank (CCB). The Committee had been appointed in July 2018 and handed over its 800 pages long report to Attorney General Costas Clerides on 1 March. President of the...
Parliament approved revised Cybc budget Cyprus

Parliament approved revised Cybc budget

March 22nd, 20191222 Parliament on Friday approved the revised state broadcaster (Cybc) budget a week after MPs rejected it, sparking a public debate concerning the quality of its programmes. The budget was passed with 32 in favour, 10 against and one abstention. It was reduced by €400,000 to €32.8m. The government has also prohibited the...
House to vote Friday on HIO budget Health

House to vote Friday on HIO budget

March 21st, 20191150 Parliament will on Friday be voting on the 2019 budget for the Health Insurance Organisation, the public entity tasked with managing the National Health Scheme (Gesy). The funds allocated to the HIO are just under €500,000, specifically covering the needs of Gesy for the latter half of the year. The first phase of the national...
Parliament passes bill to create fund for depositors affected by 2013 crisis Cyprus

Parliament passes bill to create fund for depositors affected by 2013 crisis

March 15th, 20192305 Parliament passed a bill on Friday to create a solidarity fund for depositors and bondholders affected by the bank haircut in 2013. The bill was put forward by the Disy, Diko, and the Solidarity party, and includes two proposed laws. The one proposal concerns the modification and redefinition of the operation, purpose and...
Parliament votes down state broadcaster’s budget Cyprus

Parliament votes down state broadcaster’s budget

March 15th, 20191714 Parliament voted down the 2019 budget of state broadcaster CyBC on Friday with 24 votes against the budget and 17 votes approving the funds. The state broadcaster’s budget was voted down by the ruling Disy party, and the Diko party, with the head of Disy, Averof Neophytou saying the channel had begun to broadcast ‘soap...
MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes Cyprus

MPs renew call for review of state’s compensation deal with Hermes

March 14th, 20193020 Lawmakers on Thursday again called for a review of a deal whereby the state compensates Hermes – the operator of the two international airports in the south – for revenues lost to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north. During a closed-doors session of the House watchdog committee, MPs heard that year in year out the state...
House accepts president’s referral on electoral roll Cyprus

House accepts president’s referral on electoral roll

March 1st, 20191478 The House plenum on Friday accepted the referral by President Nicos Anastasiades of the law on European Parliament elections on the automatic inclusion of voters in the electoral rolls. By the acceptance of the referral, the existing law, in force since 2014, will continue to apply, head of the House interior committee, Eleni Mavrou...
Budget passes: 30 votes in favour to 24 against Cyprus

Budget passes: 30 votes in favour to 24 against

December 14th, 20182331 By Lizzy Ioannidou THE state budget for 2019 was approved on Friday night with 30 votes in favour and 24 against, with MPs across all parties bar Disy voting to temporarily freeze funds amounting to €33mn for the implementation of the Estia debt relief scheme. The money is to be released after the written consent of the House...
MPs show they're the 'champions of the poor' during budget debate   Cyprus

MPs show they're the 'champions of the poor' during budget debate  

December 13th, 20181577 By Elias Hazou Opposition politicians on Thursday harangued the government for operating in a bubble and focusing on lifeless economic data while the real situation was grim, with thousands of people barely getting by from pay cheque to pay cheque. During the ongoing budget debate in the House, Akel MP Eleni Mavrou said the...
Disy and Diko submit bill for cut in fuel tax Cyprus

Disy and Diko submit bill for cut in fuel tax

December 7th, 20182161 Despite the government’s disagreement, the leaders of ruling Disy and Diko on Friday submitted a bill that cuts fuel tax by five cents a litre. The proposal tabled by Averof Neophytou and Nicolas Papadopoulos provides for a cut in the tax rate for petrol, diesel, and heating fuel by €0.05 cents per litre. It is scheduled for...
Reforms should be a national goal, FinMin tells parliament Cyprus

Reforms should be a national goal, FinMin tells parliament

December 7th, 20181881 Finance Minister Harris Georgiades urged parties Friday to back structural reforms and consider them a national goal that will change the country and maintain economic growth. “Advancing reforms and changes in the structures and procedures of the state and the economy must be a national goal,” the minister told parliament during...
Gesy overseers under scrutiny over possible conflict of interest Health

Gesy overseers under scrutiny over possible conflict of interest

December 6th, 20182056 By Elias Hazou EXECUTIVES of the organisation tasked with overseeing the administrative and financial autonomy of state hospitals – the stepping stone to the rolling out of the National Health Scheme – were hauled over the coals on Thursday, with one alleged to have cheated on his taxes and another of failing to disclose...
Flooding at parliament highlights delay in constructing new House Cyprus

Flooding at parliament highlights delay in constructing new House

December 4th, 20181573 By Evie Andreou The downpour early Tuesday that caused flooding also to the parliament building in Nicosia has highlighted the two-decade-old delay in the decision for the construction of new premises to house the legislative body and its services. The ground floor of the current building located in the centre of Nicosia, flooded...
Parliament rejects cross-voting bill Cyprus

Parliament rejects cross-voting bill

November 30th, 20181732 By George Psyllides PARLIAMENT on Friday rejected three proposals that would have introduced cross voting in local, parliamentary, and European Parliament elections The three proposals were rejected by the majority of MPs, mainly from Akel, Diko, and Edek. Cross voting, a system allowing voters to opt for candidates from more...
House passes law requiring airlines to hand over passengers’ travel history Cyprus

House passes law requiring airlines to hand over passengers’ travel history

November 30th, 20186278 Parliament on Friday approved a law transposing the EU PNR (passenger name record) directive, which requires air carriers to transfer to member states the passenger name record they have collected in the normal course of their business. The vote was passed by 24 to 16. The information passengers must provide includes in addition to...
Parliament passes supplementary budget of €295m Cyprus

Parliament passes supplementary budget of €295m

November 16th, 20181692 The plenum on Friday passed a supplementary budget of €295 million with 24 votes for and 18 abstentions. A report submitted by the parliament’s finance committee prior to the vote said that the supplementary budget would not disrupt the fiscal balance because from the €295m set to be added to the state budget, €84.2m concerned...
Health minister’s bigger budget fails to impress   Health

Health minister’s bigger budget fails to impress  

November 13th, 20182294 By Elias Hazou Lawmakers on Monday were singularly unimpressed with health minister Constantinos Ioannou’s boast that the ministry’s budget for 2019 was the largest in a decade. Briefing the House finance committee, which needs to sign off on the funds earmarked for next year, Ioannou said the government would be spending...
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