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The House on Thursday passed a law aiming to tighten up screening of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) where such investments are deemed to possibly impact national security. The controls will ...

Civil servants in semi-governmental organisations will be able to transfer to other departments and services in the broader civil service without restrictions to the length of the transfers. The House ...

A minute of silence marked the start of a rare joint session of three key parliamentary committees in Cyprus, convened to examine the state’s response to the deadly wildfire ...

Parliament on Thursday voted into law a bill which allows for the European Union’s visa information system (VIS) to be implemented and operated in Cyprus, bringing the island a ...

A package of bills aiming to straighten out the issue of multiple state pensions paid to certain state officials will go to the plenum on June 19, with MPs on Monday ...

Parliamentarians on Monday wrapped up discussion of bills proposing to create a national financial sanctions implementation unit, with the legislation now set to head out to the plenum for a ...

After a great deal of squabbling, lawmakers on Thursday evening threw out a bill that sought to exempt the members of the Advisory Council from scrutiny of their personal assets. ...

Three proposed bills aimed at enhancing consumer and business protection against abusive clauses in bank contracts will take centre stage in February as the House plenum prepares to vote on ...

By Jean Christou The House on Monday voted by majority to limit cash transactions over €10,000 after the previous internation had been referred back to parliament by the president. The amended ...

The House ethics committee on Monday unanimously accepted the referral by the president of a law passed on December 5 to limit large cash transactions. The issue will now be tabled ...

The House plenum on Thursday greenlit a law that makes ‘revenge porn’ a criminal offence, regardless of the victim’s gender, and punishable by up to 14 years in jail where ...

The House on Thursday passed an amendment to a law that significantly reduces the fines imposed on corporate entities for not declaring their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) on time. Under ...

An MP on Thursday claimed that the Cypriot state was preparing to “borrow again” to repay a €6.3 billion bailout granted back in 2013. Zacharias Koulias (Diko) made the comments while the ...

In a special session held on Thursday, the House accepted in part the president’s referral back to it of a law relating to how legal entities collect royalties for ...

The House plenum on Thursday gave the nod to the 2024 budget of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta), but not before MPs tussled about the direction and the past of the ...

Parliament is set to vote on a bill on Thursday that will amend civil servant working hours in an effort to alleviate traffic issues. The current hours of the public ...

It took a year and the danger of losing EU funding worth €85 million for the legislature to finally approve the two bills establishing a framework for the operation of companies ...

Parliament on Thursday voted through a legislative proposal that empowers the government to order a price cap on petroleum products, and also passed bills cutting to zero the VAT charged ...

Disregarding warnings from the government and financial authorities, the House plenum on Thursday extended a freeze on property foreclosures to the end of October. The bill – amending the laws governing ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation seen as the backbone of reforming the justice and judicial system – a development welcomed by the attorney-general and the justice minister. The ...

The bills reforming local government and reducing the number of municipalities will be finalised by the House interior committee next week and sent for approval to the plenum before the ...

Barring the unexpected, the legislation on local government reform will go to the plenum for a vote one month from now, it transpired on Thursday. Speaking after a session of ...

A total of 85 amendments to the local government reform bills were presented during the House interior committee on Thursday, which took place behind closed doors. While most of the amendments ...

The house of representatives will hold an extraordinary plenary session early on Thursday, just ten days before the parliamentary elections, to discuss six laws sent back by President Nicos Anastasiades. ...