EU sanctions: Is geopolitics trumping economics?
The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers
The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...
EU blacklists wife of Russian billionaire Melnichenko to curb bypassing sanctions
The European Union on Friday blacklisted Aleksandra Melnichenko, the wife of Andrey Melnichenko, a previously sanctioned Russian billionaire who Reuters revealed had reassigned his companies to her in a bid ...
Anastasiades urges EU leaders to adopt targeted sanctions on Russia
President Nicos Anastasiades took part in a teleconference of EU leaders on Monday chaired by president of the European Council Charles Michel, centred on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Reverberations of the war in Ukraine
The far-reaching geopolitical effects are unfolding
By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos
The end of the Cold War following the dissolution of the Soviet Union left a situation based on promises, but ...
Three Russians on latest sanctions list have Cyprus passports
A senior government official said Tuesday that three individuals subject to EU sanctions in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hold a Cyprus passport, adding that checks are ongoing, ...
EU to establish rapid reaction force with up to 5,000 troops (Updated)
EU foreign and defence ministers on Monday agreed a security strategy meant to boost the bloc’s military clout when war has returned to Europe, establishing a rapid reaction force ...
More Russian oligarchs, Belarus banks to be sanctioned says the EU
The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian ...
Top-level meetings on economic impact of Ukraine invasion (Updated)
The problems Cyprus is facing from the EU ban on Russian flights, and other impacts on the economy from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are to be at the centre ...
Our View: Ukraine crisis a setback for tourism recovery
The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis.
Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...
EU ambassadors agree to freeze assets of Putin and Lavrov
The European Union is planning a third package of sanctions against Moscow, EU officials said on Friday, as Ukraine’s president pleaded with the bloc for faster and more forceful ...
Our View: Is government making further miscalculation over passports?
The government may have thought it could ride the storm caused by last year’s revelations about the citizenship scheme by announcing it would stop receiving any more applications from ...
EU’s Borrell: we will monitor Ankara’s behaviour
EU foreign ministers agreed to keep all options on the table regarding Turkey in case recent signs of de-escalation proved unsustainable, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said ...
EU sanctions remain on the table, Germany warns Turkey
By Sabine Siebold
European Union sanctions against Turkey remain on the table, Germany warned on Monday, after Ankara decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a pact designed to counter ...
EU envoys agree first China sanctions since 1989
The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the ...
Russia calls US allegations over Putin-directed election meddling ‘baseless’
Russia on Wednesday described U.S. intelligence allegations that President Vladimir Putin had likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump as baseless.
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