Turkey expects EU screening to end in October Turkey will not open its ports to Greek-Cypriot ships, if the EU Foreign Affairs and External Relations Council does not approve the Regulation for direct trade with Cyprus Turkish occupied areas, the Cyprus News Agency reported. This message was conveyed in Brussels by Turkish Deputy Assistant Minister

Shorter validity period The Council of Ministers (of Transport) reached a political agreement on Monday for a common European driving licence based on a European Commission proposal dating back to 2003. The aim of common European rules is to facilitate the free movement of EU drivers, prevent fraud when driving licences are used as identification

…three-way merger with Marfin & Egnatia denied The price adjustment of 23 cents yesterday on the Laiki Bank shares as they traded ex-rights forced the CSE lower on Tuesday, with market participants lacking direction as the price of Bank of Cyprus on the ASE matched the close on the CSE. At the open, the Laiki

Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iacovou left for Khartoum on Saturday from Brussels, to take part in the Arab League summit at the invitation of the league’s Secretary General Amre Mousa. Iacovou was in Brussels where he had accompanied Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos at the EU Summit. It is the first time a foreign minister of

EU leaders broadly supported the European Parliament revisions to the EU services directive at their summit on March 23 and 24. Last month European parliamentarians voted 391 to 213 in favour with 34 abstentions for a diluted directive to open up the EU’s large services sector to freer competition. The main change was the abolition