The European Commission has given a favourable assessment of Cyprus’ attempts to correct its “excessive deficit” identified in July 2004, saying that it “seems have corrected its excessive deficit in 2005”. “The European Commission finds that Cyprus, Malta and the United Kingdom, which are subject to the excessive deficit procedure, present strategies that should enable
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Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos has spoken out against any attempts to open up Turkish Cypriot trade, saying that it perpetuates the division of the island. Last month Turkey offered to implement the Ankara protocol in return for opening up Turkish Cypriot trade. Speaking after returning from a four-day working visit to Austria, President Papadopoulos said
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The Pope received Cypriot House of Representatives President and leader of the communist AKEL party, Demetris Christofias on Wednesday. Christofias said the Pontiff was informed about the Cyprus problem and on the looting of cultural treasures in the Turkish occupied areas as well as the pillage of churches there. According to Christofias, the Pope said
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Cyprus will be represented in the 51st Eurovision song contest in May in Athens by Annette Artani, with the song “Why Angels Cry”. The song was voted as the best song among ten songs performed before an audience in CYBC studios in Nicosia. The contest was by televoting from all the main districts of the
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A student and her boyfriend in Singapore featured in a homemade sex video that has been circulating on the Internet are unlikely to face charges, but the person who posted the video is in trouble with the law. The Nanyang Polytechnic student filed a police report after her cellphone, which had been used to film
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