The Cyprus Institute presented Thursday its unmanned aircrafts, which in the defense community are known as “drones”. After more than four years of intensive work, the Cyprus Institute inaugurated its Unmanned Aircraft Research Facility, which was developed in the framework of the “Autonomous Flying Platforms for Atmospheric and Earth Surface Observation” project (APAESO). APAESO aims
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Cyprus is entering into negotiations with the Italian-Korean consortium ENI-KOGAS on the licensing of two new blocks, 5 and 6, west of the island’s offshore Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for natural gas exploration. The government decided on Thursday to begin talks by December 2. Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis was authorised by the cabinet to extend
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President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will have an informal meeting with their advisors on Monday, but in the absence of UN mediators, with the aim of agreeing on a joint statement that will pave the way for the resumption of direct talks on the Cyprus problem. The meeting will take place
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A high-speed rail link (TGV) will connect Barcelona and Paris starting on December 15, Spain's minister for infrastructure, Ana Pastor. The minister noted that the technical experts of the two administrations were in the process of completing the registration work for the line and that the first train was expected to be on the rails
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The plenary of the European Parliament gave the green light for the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument for the financing of the Cypriot Structural Funds programmes for a total amount of EUR 89,33 million. The plenary’s decision was based on a report approved by Belgian MEP Jean-Luc Dehaene. The MEPs reiterated that the mobilisation of
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Sakharov Prize laureates pledged to continue their fight against human rights violations, during a seminar Wednesday. The seminar was hosted at the European Parliament premises with the participation of Sakharov Prize laureates who are in the French city for celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The laureates outlined
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Cyprus features in the European Commission’s ‘naughty list’ for November on the transposition of the acquis communautaire as regards the areas of climate, environment, home affairs, internal market & services and taxation. In particular the European Commission has decided to send to Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Romania an official request for
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Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzaï made a passionate plea for children throughout the world to have the right to education, as she accepted the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in Strasbourg. Yousafzai, who was honoured for her fight to promote education for girls despite the threat of Taliban violence, said: "There is poverty, lack
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The Ministry of Finance has selected audit firm Ernst & Young to carry out a fair value assessment of the Cyprus Cooperative Institutions (Co-ops), a term of the a €1.5 capital injection given by the State to cover their estimated capital shortfall. According to CNA sources, the firm Ernst & Young had submitted the lowest
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A high level of network and information security and cybersecurity is important and will contribute to the development of the required market environment and trust, to enable the progress of our society, Minister of Communications and Works, Tasos Mitsopoulos has said. Addressing the "CYpBER 2013" Conference Oil and Natural Gas, Mitsopoulos said that "today’s cyber
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