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
Cyprus is not a bastion of investigative journalism as nature of the beast doesn’t allow for it roam in these protected waters where hearsay and subterfuge suffice. Students of the written word
President Nicos Anastasiades believes there are “orchestrated attempts to tarnish” him after the chief editor of a leading newspaper said he was forced to resign after claiming the Cypriot leader’s family law
Cyprus handed out ‘golden passports’ to shady foreign investors because it did not conduct the necessary due diligence through the now-discredited Citizenship for Investment Scheme. A 53-page report from a committee tasked
Cyprus Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides assured Nicosia will not re-establish the disgraced Cyprus Investment Scheme either in the same or similar format. The scheme was terminated in November after an expose by
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told MPs Monday there was not a chance of the government resurrecting the disgraced passport for investment scheme. He said the Cyprus Investment Programme has been terminated once
The matter of the golden passports is well known after the Al Jazeera reports we expect there will be more follow-ups. Certainly, the €7 bln income produced mainly by the real estate
Cyprus’ COVID-affected budget 2021 debate begins on Monday in parliament with some opposition MPs threatening to vote against it after the ‘golden passports’ debacle. Minister of Finance Constantinos Petrides will brief MPs
Veteran MP Adamos Adamou is the new President of the House of Representatives after Demetris Syllouris resigned this week amid public fury following a video where he appears to be willing to
Brussels said it was shocked by an Al Jazeera undercover report that showed Cypriot officials willing to sell EU passports for a price. The European Commission is looking into compliance of the
