EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, and Youth Androulla Vassiliou has said that there will be a minimum requirement of digital skills for 90% of job vacancies by 2015, noting that in 2012 50% of Europe’s population had little or no such skills. Addressing a conference on “New Technologies – prospects for the fields of
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“All EU countries are by your side”, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said during a joint press conference in Nicosia with President Nicos Anastasiades, noting that they will continue to show solidarity to Cyprus. Van Rompuy referred to the energy prospects of Cyprus, saying they are “an important factor of hope”. “The EU is
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On a sunny September morning, several team members of the “Feeling Younger by Getting Older” (FYGO) initiative organised an ICT training session for elderly citizens, held under the auspices of a Grundtvig LLP project funded by IDEP Cyprus. The project’s final mission is to develop an Internet portal for the aging population for them to
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There are four main factors that have driven the recent global recoveryand it seems to be a solid recovery, according to Q3 2013 findings of ACCA’s Global Economic Conditions Survey. Presenting the conclusions of the survey at an event hosted by the ICPAC in Nicosia last week, Emmanuil Schizas, Senior Economist Analyst of ACCA, drew
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Andri Lazarou, Demetra Olymbiou, Jacek Zybert and Simona Attaallah, trainee accountants at PwC Cyprus won top places in Cyprus in the examinations of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which took place in June. Andri Lazarou, who achieved first place in the Advanced Audit and Assurance paper, is a graduate of the Department of
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. The emergence of Debt Mediation and Debt Restructuring for Cyprus businesses By Rakis Christoforou BBA, CPA/ABV/CFF, MCSI, CGMA, ACFE Debt mediation is becoming a primary means for individual and small to medium size companies to refinance as the market for lines of credit and direct borrowing have shrunk dramatically. The use of debt mediation
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. A year ago, Nicos Anastasiades was introducing a series of “initiatives for the economy” he had first declared when he launched his election campaign last summer. A lot of people believed in him and some even voted for him for the sake of change as the outgoing communist government was clearly anti-business. But throughout
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EU-listed companies should aim to ensure, by 2020, that at least 40% of their non-executive board members are women, so as to promote gender equality in economic decision making, according to draft rules proposed by the European Commission and backed by the Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Legal Affairs committees on Monday. In 2012,
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* Developing world index falls as focus turns to sustainable growth A fall in business confidence in fast-growing economies has reduced the gap with mature markets as efficiency becomes the key driver to remaining competitive without compromising on growth, the latest Regus survey found. Research reveals that firms will prioritize cost-cutting measures, from talent retention
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Markos Asprou, a Ph.D. student at the University of Cyprus and a researcher at the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, has received an international award which, the Graduate Fellowship given by the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (http://ieee-ims.org/ ) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The selection process for this
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