Following footage of quadbike users crashing into pedestrians and one smashing into a biker, authorities have stepped up policing while the local municipality demands a night ban on quadbikes. Several four-wheel vehicles were caught on film hitting into people at zebra crossings and on pavements, while a quadbike was recorded crashing into a delivery man,
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The results of the Spanish general elections on Sunday were inconclusive and do not offer at this stage clear paths for government formation for either the centre-right Popular Party (PP) or the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP came out ahead in the elections with 33.1% of the votes, followed by
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The many crises the EU has been facing recently should not let us forget the ongoing pain caused by the open wound of Cyprus’ division. Next year will mark 50 years that the island remains de facto divided. Half a century. There are now more Cypriot citizens that have lived under division than under a
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Despite a 15% drop in electricity prices since last year, power bills are twice as big as in the summer of 2020, a few months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For July 2023, the average price for residential use, according to a report published by the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA), is 34.32 cents for
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The minimum wage in Cyprus at under €1,000 per month is below the EU average of €1,132 among the 22 states of 27 that have adopted it. Cyprus became the 22nd EU member state to have instituted it on January 1 2023. At €940 per month, Cyprus is about halfway down the EU ranking, which is relatively
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Consumers are reassured they will not face blackouts triggered by the record high energy demand from air-conditioning units working overtime during the sweltering summer. As Cyprus enters a second week of extremely high temperatures, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) announced that energy demand on Monday equalled the record of 1240 MW, recorded in July 2021.
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By Craig Erlam Equity markets are treading water at the start of what is going to be a very lively week. There are some huge central bank meetings this week, the most notable being the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Interest rates are finally at or very close to their peaks and this week could see
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A wildfire that broke out in the Paphos forest has been contained after it destroyed around 20 hectares of pine and wild vegetation during one of the longest heatwaves in Cyprus’ history. It is the worst fire the Mediterranean island has faced this summer as it swelters under temperatures that have remained at 40 degrees
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President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, will pay a joint visit to the Committee of Missing Persons on Friday in a rare joint event. It is seen as a non-political confidence-building step in helping to thaw the ice over the resumption of UN-led peace talks. UNFICYP spokesperson in Cyprus Aleem Siddique issued
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Wednesday’s scheduled Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral meeting in Nicosia has been postponed for later in the year after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed surgery. Nonetheless, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis is sticking to his plans to visit Cyprus and will meet President Christodoulides. Netanyahu was admitted to the Sheba Medical Center on Saturday to be fitted with
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