Barack Obama took power as the first black U.S. president on Tuesday and quickly turned the page on the Bush years, urging Americans to rally to end the worst economic crisis in
Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Ploutarchos Sakellaris will pay an official visit to Cyprus January 22 and 23, 2009. During his stay in Cyprus, Sakellaris will hold separate meeting with
The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties participating in the subcommittee meeting of party leaders, meeting regularly at the Ledra Palace, have ''strongly condemned'' the attacks by ''chauvinist groups'' on Turkish
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said that a solution to the Cyprus issue would constitute a “historic, important step” which would be in the interest of Cyprus, Europe and Turkey.
Improved German investor sentiment failed to lift equity market gloom on Tuesday as investors fretted about the financial system despite the promise of further multi-billion dollar interventions around the world. German analyst
The Statistical Service has published “Cyprus in the EU scale” for 2008, showing Cyprus compared with other EU countries. Cyprus had a real GDP growth rate of 4.4% in 2007 compared with
The industrial turnover index in October rose by 11.1% compared with October 2007 according to the latest figures from the Statistical Service. Industrial turnover comprises mining, quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water
Tourism arrivals in Cyprus fell by 2.2% over the year earlier in December, bringing the cumulative fall for the year to 0.5%. Tourism arrivals totalled 2,403,744 in 2008, of which 1,242,650, or
Pre-Christmas discounts and a cut in sales tax pushed British inflation down by its biggest margin in almost 17 years last month, but the fall was less dramatic than analysts had forecast,
Barack Obama takes over as U.S. president on Tuesday with hopes riding high he can conjure up a rescue that will jolt the world's biggest economy back to life and contain the
