The European Commission has adopted a financing decision for a total of 38.1 million euros to encourage the economic development of the Turkish Cypriot community in the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus.
Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah won Saturday the 2006 Troodos Rally, the penultimate round of the 2006 FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), securing his second consecutive MERC title.Attiyah with a Subaru Impreza secured
The EU Finnish Presidency initiative to avert a crisis in EU-Turkey relations cannot bare fruit if it does not envisage the return of the fenced-off town of Famagusta to its legal inhabitants,
The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, presented Friday Meglena Kuneva as the designated member of the European Commission proposed by the Bulgarian Government. Ms Kuneva, the current Bulgarian Minister
By Joseph Stiglitz  Americans like to think that if poor countries simply open up their markets, greater prosperity will follow. Unfortunately, where agriculture is concerned, this is mere rhetoric. The United
By Jeffrey Sachs  Our political systems and global politics are largely unequipped for the real challenges of today’s world. Global economic growth and rising populations are putting unprecedented stresses on the
By Dr. Marios Matsakis MEP for Cyprus (partly occupied by Britain and Turkey) Â Britain retains sovereignty over two areas totalling 99 sq. miles in Cyprus. The above British Occupied Areas are
On 19 October PricewaterhouseCoopers, Performa Consulting and the Ministry of Finance organised a conference at Hilton Park, Nicosia on the Challenge of Change to examine creativity and innovation in organisations. Speakers at
When the ruling centre-right Democratic Party (Diko) elected Marios Karoyian as its third and youngest leader on Sunday with the support of the old guard who set up the party three decades
One-quarter of children in private schools  The number of Cypriot students abroad approached 20,000 in the academic year 2004/05, according to the latest education statistics from the Statistical Service, while almost
