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President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced a €50 million tranche of measures aimed at tackling the “national challenge” Cyprus is facing with its ‘alarming demographic problem’, where fertility rates have dropped ...

Farmers call for more environmentally unfriendly desalination plants to meet domestic consumers’ needs As the drought continues to rapidly shrink water levels in the reservoirs, farmers face ever increasing water ...

The messages sent by Wednesday’s meeting at the White House between President Nikos Christodoulides and US President Joe Biden underscored an upgraded role for Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides on Thursday said a group of migrants stranded in the buffer zone will be “relocated in the next two to three weeks.” His statements suggested ...

United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he remains optimistic about the prospect of a solution to the Cyprus problem, following a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides at the ...

Officials on Tuesday reiterated there currently exists no practical way to bring down energy costs, which have a knock-on effect on the prices of goods, as one MP warned that ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday heralded his invitation to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House, attributing it to Cyprus’ strengthening “regional and international footprint”. Christodoulides is ...

It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back. In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...

With surveillance cameras becoming all the more prominent, police have had to increasingly rely on the public and cameras installed outside private properties to help them gather evidence in a ...

Worsening traffic congestion and measures to address it dominated Friday’s House finance committee meeting, where Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades presented his ministry’s €780 million budget for 2025. MPs pressed Vafeades ...

Fraud investigations into a €46 million waste treatment project have shifted to Brussels but seem to be going nowhere, as the EU, which funded the project, remains uncertain about who is ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos heralded on Wednesday what he described “an important day for the bilateral relations with the United States” during talks for the first strategic dialogue between the ...

A deal regarding the delivery of the floating storage and re-gasification unit (Fsru) that is part of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Vasiliko has been reached by the ...

The police control systems at airports and all checkpoints in Cyprus have been restored after the country was targeted by six cyberattacks over the weekend, allegedly linked to hacker group ‘...

This week saw the verbal jousting between the government and opposition party Akel over the issue of affordable housing return, with each side cherry-picking data from the latest Eurostat survey. ...

After much anticipation, Chairwoman of the House human rights committee, Irene Charalambidou, presented a bill on euthanasia on Friday, setting the stage for what is expected to be a heated ...

Cyprus recorded the highest number of lawyers per capita but one of the longest delays in resolving cases according to a new Council of Europe (CoE) report released on Wednesday. ...

All eyes are fixed on whether the two leaders in Cyprus will be willing and able to engage sufficiently to allow an informal five-party meeting with the three guarantor powers ...

Three children have been denied access to education and personalised assistance to overcome their emotional problems and reintegrate into neighbourhood schools because of the commotion caused by parents and teachers ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are on the “same page” regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem, that there cannot be a solution outside the agreed ...

Cyprus’ first natural gas extraction will most likely be from the Kronos reservoir in block 6, which may be in 2027, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said in an interview to Kathimerini published ...

The Turkish Cypriot people “are counting down the days to get rid of the burden of Tatar”, opposition party CTP secretary-general Asim Akansoy said of incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...

Tackling irregular migration is a European challenge that requires a European response, a joint statement by nine governments including Cyprus said on Friday, during the 11th Summit of the Southern ...

Measures aimed at tackling the high cost of living will return, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced on Thursday, as zero VAT will be implemented on a number of products. His ...