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Cyprus in the dock over EU budget fraud

European prosecutors accuse Cyprus of inadequately monitoring how EU funds are spent, claiming one in 10 fraud cases against the European Union budget has a Cypriot connection, an accusation Nicosia denies. Cyprus

29th January 2021

Cyprus/Europe

UK Foreign Secretary to visit before Cyprus summit

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will pay a short visit to Cyprus to hold meetings on February 4 to plan the way forward ahead of a UN conference on reviving the peace

29th January 2021

Cyprus/Europe

Avoid being social media-fuelled stock hysteria, says fund manager

Investors need to exercise the utmost caution before joining social media-led stock frenzies, warned the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations. The warning from Nigel

29th January 2021

Markets/World

UNHCR warns asylum under attack at Europe’s borders

Alarmed at the increasing frequency of expulsions and pushbacks of asylum-seekers at Europe’s borders, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for states to investigate and halt these practices. “UNHCR has received

29th January 2021

World

Cyprus drops down corruption table

Cyprus received another blow to its tarnished reputation as it dropped one notch to 42nd in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) on Thursday. The news comes as government and senior

28th January 2021

Business/World

COVID19: Cyprus best in Europe at tackling pandemic

Cyprus has been more successful than most countries in tackling the pandemic coming fifth in a global COVID Performance Index of 98 nations. It is the highest-ranked European country and was only

28th January 2021

Cyprus/World

US to accelerate non-lethal arms sales to Cyprus

Washington is looking at ways of speeding up procedures to supply Cyprus with non-lethal weapons after the lifting of a US arms embargo last year. Cyprus Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides and US

28th January 2021

Cyprus/World

‘Buy everything’ trade taken down a notch

By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM The S&P 500 fell 2.57% on Wednesday, its biggest single-day drop since October, as the benchmark index wiped out its year-to-date gains. Spot Gold is

28th January 2021

Markets/World

UN summit on Cyprus expected in March

An informal UN-led 5+1 Cyprus conference to resume abandoned peace talks is scheduled to take place in early March, most probably at Greentree in New York. However, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

27th January 2021

Cyprus/World

COVID19: EU vaccination plan at risk

AstraZeneca conceding it will not be able to meet its Q1 delivery commitments to the European Union is set to endanger the bloc’s strategy to get the virus in check by summer.

27th January 2021

Cyprus/Europe