Hopes of reviving a Cyprus ferry link to Greece this summer after 20 years have sunk before setting sail after Friday’s deadline for tenders expired without any interest shown because of the
European prosecutors accuse Cyprus of inadequately monitoring how EU funds are spent, claiming one in 10 fraud cases against the European Union budget has a Cypriot connection, an accusation Nicosia denies. Cyprus
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will pay a short visit to Cyprus to hold meetings on February 4 to plan the way forward ahead of a UN conference on reviving the peace
The UN Security Council mandate for Cyprus is to secure a bizonal, bicommunal solution but the parties can present new ideas at a conference in March, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “It
President Nicos Anastasiades said his government would announce Friday major anti-graft reforms after it scrapped its controversial passport-for-investment scheme last year. Cyprus dropped the “golden passport” scheme in November after Al Jazeera
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides expects to see the Cyprus economy bounce back from the pandemic with 4.5% GDP growth in 2021 following a 5.5% contraction during last year’s health crisis. Addressing Invest
Cyprus received another blow to its tarnished reputation as it dropped one notch to 42nd in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) on Thursday. The news comes as government and senior
Wizz Air announced three new destinations from Cyprus to Oslo, Tel Aviv and Kharkiv starting from March while allocating a third aircraft to its Larnaca base. Besides the new routes, Wizz will
Cyprus is launching schemes in a bid to meet its EU 2030 environmental targets set in its national Climate Plan 2021-2030 which includes subsidies for making homes more energy-efficient. The EU has
Cyprus has been more successful than most countries in tackling the pandemic coming fifth in a global COVID Performance Index of 98 nations. It is the highest-ranked European country and was only
