Cyprus ranks first amongst EU member states in the number of asylum applicants per million inhabitants, Eurostat data show. According to data released on Tuesday, 2.875 individuals applied for asylum in 2010.
. DR ANDRESTINOS N. PAPADOPOULOS Ambassador a.h. The Arab uprising in northern Africa and the Arab peninsula against their rulers, coined the ‘Arab Spring’, represents a historic milestone especially in the quest
* Fund worth €500 mln euros to be ready by September The Central Bank of Cyprus will create a financial stability fund worth around 500 million euros to create an additional safety
* Debts could be subordinate to EU loans * Bond yields shoot higher on downgrade Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece and Portugal on Tuesday, citing risks that the countries' debts to a
President Bashar al-Assad will on Wednesday give his first public speech since pro-democracy protests in which more than 60 people have been killed erupted in southern Syria and swept through the country.
Japan upgraded its safety standards for nuclear power plants on Wednesday, the first official acknowledgement that norms were insufficient when an earthquake wrecked one of its facilities, triggering the world's worst atomic
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the government of Belarus' foreign and local currency bond ratings from B1 to B2 and has assigned a negative outlook to the ratings due to the country’s
Total sales of petroleum products dropped by 2.8% compared with the corresponding period of the previous year in January – February 2011, possibly because high oil prices are leading to more careful
Tourism revenue recorded a strong increase in February, rising by 8.8% compared with the same month of 2010. Total revenue reached EUR 36.9 mln, from EUR 33.9 mln in the corresponding month
President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will meet on Wednesday morning in the framework of the UN-backed direct negotiations for a solution to the
