EU has 23 official languages

In less than three years, the official languages of the European Union have more than doubled, growing from 11 on 30 April 2004 to 23 on 1 January 2007. The Directorate-General for

COMMENT: Women, Cyprus and civil society

By Fiona Mullen   Society should be judged by how it treats its … [fill in the gap]. In the context of the Council of Europe campaign against trafficking on February 15th-16th

COMMENT — BRICKs: The New World Super Powers

  By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management   Goldman Sachs, the noted investment bank, has started a global debate about the opportunities presented by the emergence of five economic

Green Week 2007 in Brussels

The signing of the Treaty of Rome on 25 March 1957 created a family of European nations which over the past fifty years have grown closer together. While maintaining their individual cultures,

EDITORIAL: Can Cyprus play the oil game?

  Now that the whole ‘striking oil’ fuss has died down and the experts prepare to begin their preliminary work to see if  there are any sizeable natural gas or oil reserves,

Cyprus zoo boosts local vulture stocks

Efforts are underway on the island to boost the local vulture stocks, as their numbers are dangerously dwindling. Limassol Mayor Andreas Christou handed over a vulture egg to Forestry Department officials, saying