Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will attend an historic bicommunal football friendly on March 19 for only the second such match in 64 years. As part of Peace and Sport’s ongoing efforts to use sport as a tool for diplomacy and dialogue around the world, the organization will hold the
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Employment in Cyprus’ broader public sector increased 1.61% on an annual basis in Q4 2018, official figures showed on Thursday. The number of employees in the broad public sector in the last quarter of the previous year rose to 68,351 persons, of which 62,414 in the General Government and 5,937 in the Publicly Owned Enterprises
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Cyprus saw the highest number of first-time asylum seekers in Europe last year – in relation to its population – spiking 70% on 2017, also the EU’s biggest percentage increase. Nicosia has often complained that it is now on the frontline of Europe’s irregular migration flows with little support from Brussels to share the burden
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Construction of a new industrial port at Vasiliko, to be operational by 2023 as a service centre for the burgeoning oil and gas industry in Cyprus, will cost an estimated €250 mln. Minister of Transport Vassiliki Anastassiadou told CNA, that the Ministry was in the process of appointing a consultant to prepare the tender documents
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. By Georgios Lakkotrypis On January 14, 2019, a group of countries met in Cairo. The buzzing city had hosted many international events in the past, but this one had a special twist. For the first time ever, the Cypriot, Egyptian, Greek, Israeli, Italian, Jordanian and Palestinian Ministers of Energy met to discuss the establishment
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Non-Performing Exposures (NPEs) increased by €10 mln to €11.11 bln in November from €11.10 bln in October, while loans overdue for less than 90 days rose to €8.31 bln from €8.27 bln during the same period. According to figures issued by the Central Bank of Cyprus, the ratio of NPEs on total loans (€34.92 bln)
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The Cyprus Institute is organising the first sCYence FAIR 2019, which aims to stimulate scientific interest, encourage participation by young students and support the next generation of scientists. Head of the Events Office of the Cyprus Institute, Charis Hephaestou told CNA the fair will take place on 15-16 March and is under the auspices of
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. The immense offshore natural gas success story of the East Mediterranean is heating up the discussion on security of the region. After decades of being a benign almost forgotten geopolitical part of the world, energy interests of the EU, Russia and Turkey are leading to a renewed emphasis on regional security arrangements. It goes
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Cyprus Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios expects tourists from the Russian market to stand firm while arrivals from other mainstay countries like Germany and Britain stumble. Perdios is in Russia holding meetings in the framework of the Moscow International Travel & Tourism Exhibition. In statements to CNA, he said this year the tourist flow from Russia
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Compliance with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) directive to suspend all Boeing 737 MAX operations in Europe is unlikely to harm Cyprus, Head of Safety Regulation Unit at Civil Aviation, Andreas Paspalides told CNA. The EASA announced the directive following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa on
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