Posts tagged with "parliament"

House plenary to convene extraordinary debate on co-op collapse Cyprus

House plenary to convene extraordinary debate on co-op collapse

March 23rd, 2019795 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, 2019843 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, 2019742 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, 20191994 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, 20191484 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, 20192726 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, 20191265 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, 20182212 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, 20181496 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, 20182005 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, 20181758 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, 20181918 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, 20181495 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, 20181622 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, 20185699 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, 20181595 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, 20182180 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...
Akel says other parties siding with employers as inspection vote postponed again Cyprus

Akel says other parties siding with employers as inspection vote postponed again

September 28th, 20181362 Akel on Friday accused ruling Disy of serving the interests of employers after the party sought a postponement, for the second time, of the vote on a government bill that calls for the creation of a unified labour inspection service. Discussion of the bill was postponed again on Friday at the behest of Disy, which had also asked for...
Children with special needs getting a raw deal at schools, parents say Education

Children with special needs getting a raw deal at schools, parents say

September 19th, 20182302 By Evie Andreou Parents of children with special needs lashed out at the government on Wednesday because some of their children have yet to go to school this year due to lack of escorts, most of whom are not even qualified do the job properly, they said. The education ministry said it was working to resolve the problem. The...
Banks given until Monday to find solution to wrongly offset accounts Cyprus

Banks given until Monday to find solution to wrongly offset accounts

September 8th, 20184005 By Lizzy Ioannidou IN AN extraordinary meeting on Saturday, the parliamentary audit committee gave the Hellenic Bank and the legacy Co-operative Bank until Monday to find solutions to 4,500 current accounts linked to p erforming loans that were terminated and not transferred to the Hellenic Bank, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA)...
Bank’s offset of loans against deposits comes under scrutiny by lawmakers Cyprus

Bank’s offset of loans against deposits comes under scrutiny by lawmakers

September 8th, 20182715 THE House ethics committee will hold a special session on Saturday to discuss the matter of co-op customers who had their deposits set off against loans and other obligations allegedly unbeknown to them. President Nicos Anastasiades has asked for a probe into the matter while Finance Minister Harris Georgiades asked the Cooperative...
Ex Australian PM resigns from parliament, govt loses majority Oceania

Ex Australian PM resigns from parliament, govt loses majority

August 31st, 20181200 Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday resigned from parliament, a source familiar with the matter said, stripping the government of its one-seat parliamentary majority. Turnbull last week said he would resign from parliament after he was ousted from office in a bitter party-room contest which ushered in the...
Driver arrested for terrorism after cyclists hit outside parliament Britain

Driver arrested for terrorism after cyclists hit outside parliament

August 14th, 20182468 A man deliberately drove a car into London pedestrians and cyclists on Tuesday before ramming it into barriers outside Britain's parliament in what police said appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the building in just under 18 months. Three people were injured. The driver, a 29-year-old British citizen, was arrested by armed...
House to decide on president’s veto to widower pension Cyprus

House to decide on president’s veto to widower pension

July 26th, 20181339 By Stelios Orphanides The parliament is expected to decide on Friday whether to accept President Nicos Anastasiades’ referral of a law extending widower’s pension who deemed it as unconstitutional, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Thursday. The parliament’s decision to amend a government bill and make widowers...
Parliament rejects request to discuss bills on non-performing loans and Co-op bank Cyprus

Parliament rejects request to discuss bills on non-performing loans and Co-op bank

June 29th, 20185181 Parliament on Friday rejected a government request to discuss as a matter of urgency five government bills relating to the management of non-performing loans and the state’s guarantee of the Co-op bank’s acquisition by Hellenic. The government had submitted the bills in the morning, requesting they be discussed and voted through...
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