Former Cyprus president Demetris Christofias is in a critical condition after being admitted to hospital with a serious respiratory problem, the Health Ministry said on Monday. A medical bulletin from the Health Ministry said Christofias, 72, was hospitalised at the Nicosia General Hospital's transplant unit on May 18 and then transferred to intensive care on
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Brussels stands firm behind Cyprus urging Turkey to respect the sovereign rights of the EU Member State in a dispute over energy wealth, said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday. During a visit to Cyprus, Barnier reiterated the stern message given to Turkey by EU leaders during a summit in Romania earlier this month.
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Talks between the right-wing National Unity Party (UBP) and People’s Party (HP) for the formation of a ruling coalition in the Turkish-held north have come to a halt due to disagreements over who gets senior and junior posts. UBP has met with all party leaders in the north once, while it met with HP at
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EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned on Monday that whatever the shifting political situation in Britain its options are limited and unchanged – deal, no deal or no Brexit. “Today, the fundamental choices in front of the United Kingdom remain the same: deal, no deal, no Brexit,” Barnier told reporters in Nicosia after updating Cypriot
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Almost a year after the introduction of a law obliging shops to charge for plastic carrier bags, Cypriots have changed their ways, as some 85% less plastic bags have been distributed at supermarket counters since July 2018 when the law was imposed. The Pancyprian Association of Retail Trade (PASYLE) appear to be pleased with the
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A British couple who bought a dream villa in Paphos that is now falling apart around them is suing the Cyprus government for allowing a housing complex to be built on unstable ground. Simon and Jenny Phillips left the UK behind to buy their €228,000 home, in Armou village, Paphos district, in 2008 but the
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Finance Minister Harris Georgiades believes that the confirmation of Cyprus’ credit rating by Canadian rating agency DBRS was a positive development. DBRS has confirmed Cyprus’s Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency at BBB (low) with a stable trend. “We reached investment grade a few months ago, this positive rating has been confirmed and it’s obviously a
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Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has given the right-wing National Unity Party (UBP) a mandate to form a coalition that commands a majority in the assembly in the occupied north of Cyprus following the collapse of the administration. Head of the ruling coalition, Tufan Erhurman tendered his resignation to Akinci earlier in the week, essentially
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. Contract workers in the wider public sector, estimated at 17,000 people, some of whom on the frontline of key government services, went on strike this week with the new trade union ‘Isotita’ (Equality) demanding the obvious – equal treatment at the workplace. This is not a case of reporting physical or mental abuse, but
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. Unsurprisingly the European elections are of no interest to most people as the horse-trading that goes on in Cyprus politics is magnified on a larger scale in Strasbourg where the various groupings get together to ride the gravy train. This is a ready-mix cynical view of politics that enables populists, extremists and Brexit myth-spinners
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