Juncker steps forward for Barroso’s job

Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's longest-serving elder statesman, threw his hat into the ring yesterday (9 January) for the presidency of the European Commission to succeed José Manuel Barroso.

Cyprus can become a hub for air travel

Minister of Communications and Works, Tasos Mitsopoulos referred Thursday to Government’s efforts to reinvent Cyprus as a destination point for visitors/tourists and as a hub connecting Europe with other parts of the

Chinese tourists are “walking wallets”

97 million Chinese tourists went abroad in 2013 “Chinese tourists spend so much abroad that some foreigners are calling them ‘walking wallets’,” researcher says. World's biggest-spending travellers likely to have topped 2012

Latvia joins eurozone as euro turns 15

Latvia joined the euro zone on January 1, banking on its experience of austerity to bring it prosperity in a currency union where other economies have floundered. The small Baltic country adopted