Crucial asylum reform dismissed as a ‘damp squib’
Moves to speed up deporting failed asylum seekers are fraught with legal hurdles By Elias Hazou On the Friday before last, parliament voted to amend...
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Our View: After endless preparation, justice reform placed in the hands of a committee
Although all our politicians, judges and lawyers publicly talk about the need to speed up the administering of justice, the astounding slowness of which reflects...
Our View: As police reform promised, how will we know?
We’ve probably been promised police reform for as long as local government reform and public service reform but while the latter will be tangible when...
Justice reform to be approved by Easter, minister says
Justice Minister Giorgos Savvides said Wednesday the state aimed to have a package of bills designed to reform the island’s justice system passed by parliament...
President promises year of reforms for 2020
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday pledged to continue efforts toward restarting Cyprus reunification talks, while announcing a planned ‘overhaul of the state’ via a series...
Radical change for the way justice is served
There will be radical changes in the way justice is served, starting immediately, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou announced on Tuesday. He was speaking after a...
Local authority reform back on the table (updated)
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said Thursday he will be launching a fresh initiative with political parties aiming at pushing through the reform of local authorities...
Polls show Macron hitting speed bump in French reform drive
French voters are happy with Emmanuel Macron‘s plans to shrink parliament and scrap perks enjoyed by 150,000 railway workers, but less pleased by the president’s effort...
EU legal specialists due in Cyprus in connection with reform of island’s courts
Specialists from the European Union will be arriving on January 23 as part of a fact-finding visit to Cyprus in the framework of reforming the...
EU states fail to agree reform labour rules sought by Macron
The 28 European Union states failed to agree in a first round of talks on Monday on a reform of the bloc’s labour rules that...
Local government reform is long overdue
The local authorities in Cyprus have been in financial difficulties for many years and have been funded in part by the government via the annual...
Current local authority model ‘outdated’
The current local authority model in Cyprus is outdated, the number of municipalities is excessive, and they are overstaffed, Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said on...
Undersecretary Petrides says reunification to offer another reform chance
Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides said that a settlement of the Cyprus Problem could provide an opportunity to address shortcomings in Cyprus’s public administration....
Parliament rejects civil service reform (Update)
PARLIAMENT on Friday rejected five of six government bills on civil service reform. The bill on secondment was referred to the House finance committee for...
Hasicos urges Disy, Akel to pass local authority reforms
Interior Minister Socratis Hasicos appeared fed up on Friday over what he suggested were deliberate delays in passing local authority reforms, as he urged arch...
Our View: Forget Akel’s objections, public sector reform is crucial
DESPITE all the hard work that has been put into preparing the bills for the reform of the public service by the government, it is...
It would have made sense to postpone local elections, says minister
Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on Wednesday said although the proposal to postpone December’s municipal elections had not been accepted by political parties, he still believed...
Kadis promotes reform agenda to primary school heads
The reform of the educational system is an obligation to society and its children, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday. Kadis met with preschool...
December local elections to go ahead, despite municipal reforms
THE chair of the House interior committee, which has begun reviewing government legislation on local administration reform, said on Thursday that it does not yet...
MPs urged to pass civil service reform bills (Updated)
The House finance committee on Monday began discussion of a batch of government bills aiming to reform the civil service, with Public Service Reform Commissioner Constantinos...