All flights between Greece and Cyprus will be cancelled Thursday due to a 24-hour strike by the air traffic controllers and the Greek civil aviation unions. Cyprus Airways said that all its flights to and from Athens and Thessaloniki have been cancelled and is putting on additional flights fro Friday in order to bring home
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Potato farmers and police clashed along two main roads leading in and out of the capital Nicosia Wednesday, with some of the tension resulting in verbal abuse and a group leader threatening to take up arms if their demands are not met by the government. Police mobilised their own trucks to try and fend off
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World Health Organization Director General lee Jong-Wook said on Monday that human transmission of the deadly strain of bird flu (H5N1 avian flu) would certainly occur but he could not predict when. Although bird flu has not yet shown signs of human to human transmission, scientists are expecting the flu to mutate soon enough to
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The European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet gave his biggest hint yet on Monday that euro-area interest rates are likely to rise at the next meeting on December 1. After the regular meeting of central bank chiefs of the G10 world’s most wealthy countries, Trichet said “We need to solidly anchor inflationary expectations. … We
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Supreme Court says it has supremacy over EU acquis Maybe somebody forgot to give the Cyprus Supreme Court lessons in European Union law, for the court has ruled that the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus has supremacy over the acquis communautaire, the Cyprus New Agency reported, despite plenty of EU case-law to the contrary.
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The Finance Ministry has completed the first National Action Programme of Cyprus on the Lisbon Strategy, which aims to promote reforms in the development, social and environmental policy of the island. The programme will be adopted during the next cabinet meeting and will be then forwarded to the European Commission for approval. Speaking to CNA,
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