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Politics

President reiterates Government's support to shipping industry President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades reiterated the Government’s strong support towards the shipping industry and [...]

Cyprus and Albania agree to enhance relations Albania and Cyprus have pledged to further enhance their bilateral relations and cooperation. The position was conveyed during a meeting [...]

Albanian FM expresses support to a Cyprus settlement Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania Ditmir Bushati has expressed support to a settlement of the Cyprus problem on the basis of UN [...]

Cyprus denounces terrorist attacks in Egypt The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus strongly condemned on Friday the multiple terrorist attacks that took place in Egypt’s [...]

Cypriot parties briefed by chambers of commerce from both communities Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties, which meet regularly in the UN-controlled buffer zone under the [...]

Government: UN resolution on UNFICYP satisfactory under the circumstances Nicosia has described as satisfactory, under the circumstances, the resolution adopted unanimously on Thursday by [...]

Financial News

Cyprus Airways liquidators appointed Avgoustinos Papathomas and David Dunckley have been appointed as liquidators for the purpose of winding up the affairs and distributing the assets of the [...]

Five former Bank of Cyprus officials referred to trial before the Criminal court Nicosia District Court has referred to the Criminal Court five former Bank of Cyprus officials and the Bank [...]

Cyprus unemployment rate drops to 16,4% in December 2014 Unemployment in Cyprus dropped in December 2014 to 16,4%, compared to 16,6% in November 2014. According to Eurostat, the [...]

Euro area annual inflation down to -0,6% Euro area1 annual inflation is expected to be -0.6% in January 2015, down from -0.2% in December 2014 , according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, [...]

House bill suspending foreclosures law 'negative and unnecessary', says government The government has described as “negative and unnecessary” the approval by the parliament of a bill [...]

Parliament votes for suspension of law on foreclosures until 2nd of March The House of Representatives in its plenary session today voted in favor of a proposal submitted by two parties [...]

European Affairs

European Citizen's Prize awarded to Uludağ and Christofides The 2014 European Citizen`s Prize for rapprochement between the two communities of Cyprus was awarded on Friday to Sevgül Uludağ, [...]

EU Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs adopt Riga Joint Statement on Counter-Terrorism European Union Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs, in a meeting in Riga, discussed further steps [...]

Cypriot MPs to attend Latvian EU Presidency meetings in Riga and Brussels The President of the House Committee on Foreign and European Affairs Averof Neophytou will attend a COSAC meeting, [...]

In Malta and Cyprus the highest shares of nights spent by non-residents Τhe two Mediterranean islands Member States, Malta (96%) and Cyprus (94%), had the highest shares of nights spent by [...]

Loukaides calls for equality, social state and working freedoms to exit economic crisis Member of the Cyprus House of Representatives, George Louκaides, has said that only by securing the [...]

Household saving rate records slight increase in the euro area The household saving rate in the euro area was 13.1% in the third quarter of 2014, compared to 13.0% in the second quarter of [...]