Greece presses France over missile sale to Turkey
Turkey wants to buy Eurofighters equipped with air-to-air Meteor missiles.
Turkey wants to buy Eurofighters equipped with air-to-air Meteor missiles.
The number of migrants arriving Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government.
11 countries signed a paper to Ursula von der Leyen warning the move would downgrade Europe’s health crisis resiliency.
Exclusive: Leaked papers suggest billionaireโs overseas firms should have paid UK tax on profits from hedge fundsRoman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian oligarch, may owe British tax authorities as much as ยฃ1bn, according to analysis of documents tha…
Beny Steinmetz was convicted of participating in a scheme to take ownership of land once owned by Romanian monarchs.
Cyprus Confidential files suggest offshore scheme was used to evade tens of millions in VAT on long list of expensesWhen it came to his fleet of superyachts, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was nothing if not generous.As 2011 drew to a close, his…
Before relenting, Budapest had threatened to allow billions of dollars to flow back to the Kremlin in a row over energy imports.
Ankara is angling for new energy talks in Brussels amid pressure for closer ties with the bloc.
Cyprus is a unique case as the island has been divided since 1974 between the Republic of Cyprus in the south and the Turkish-occupied north.
Territorial sovereignty in the Aegean Sea has been a contentious issue between Greece and Turkey, whose summer economies rely heavily on tourism.
At present, Cyprus, Romania, and Bulgaria are the only EU countries whose nationals still need a visa to enter the US.
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EU plans to hike airlines’ green taxes are “complete bullshit,” says lobby chief Willie Walsh.
Belgium, Germany, Greece and Austria said they will halt Syrian asylum applications one day after rebel forces ousted the country’s dictator.
Poor access to novel medicines has prompted Cyprus to propose an EU approach to voluntary joint procurement between member states.
Italian charity sends 15 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus
โI do not consider it possible to achieve those goals within the timeframe we have set,โ Nikos Christodoulides said, according to Ekathimerini.
Cyprus’ former agriculture and environment minister has promised he won’t put the European fishing industry’s short-term interests ahead of long-term ocean health.
After more than half a century, the U.K. is passing sovereignty of the disputed territory back to Mauritius. Why now?
Greek Cypriot Costa Koushiappis to be removed from UK even though his application is pending with Home OfficeAn EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status is to be deported by Border Force officials i…
Cey Sesiguzelโs documentary covers a lot of history โ and not always in the most dynamic way. But the testimony of survivors of war forms its powerful coreFifty years have passed since the 1974 partition of Cyprus, a harrowing event that looms large ov…
We pored over more than 400 pages of written answers so you donโt have to.
The Cypriot nominee wants to “put an end to public subsidies that reinforce fishing capacity” through a new WTO agreement.
France aims to bring its rules governing online gambling into line with most other EU countries, Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government has announced, despite compliants from traditional bricks-and-mortar casinos.ย France and Cyprus remain the only…
Government in the south condemns people-smuggling into EU from Turkish-occupied zone
Weakened on the domestic front, the French president could also face pressure from his prime ministerโs influence in Brussels.
Moscow is using cash and fear in an attempt to regain control of the former Soviet Republic, officials warn.
“House of Cards” for amateurs: How the brutal fight for the Tory leadership lurched into chaos and recrimination.
Syria is the elephant in the room as EU leaders talk migration.
Beny Steinmetz was released on bail after detention in Athens.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned as “unacceptable” Israeli firing on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, a stance echoed by Spain’s prime minister.
Lawyers predict more claims after โperfect winโ for two Syrian asylum seekers pushed back to LebanonA ruling by the European court of human rights ordering authorities in Cyprus to pay damages to two Syrian refugees found to have been prevented from ap…
Leaders from nine Mediterranean nations, joined by Jordan’s King Abdullah II, will meet in Cyprus on Friday to discuss Middle East conflicts and migrant flows. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, and Croatia will focus on …
MED 9 Summit in Cyprus: EU leaders confront Israel-Lebanon conflict and migration concerns
The rulings ends a very bitter dispute that split EU member countries.
Berlin’s change in stance could draw EU members to follow its lead, but Germany is still a long way from overturning the Commission’s tariff decision.
The EU’s top court delivers a ruling on an exceptionally fierce legal fight this week.
A decade-old environmental dispute in Limassol, Cyprus, is raising questions over Costas Kadis’ run for EU commissioner.
Israeli attacks targeting Hezbollah members have killed hundreds in southern Lebanon since Monday, while Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel over the last year.
A conservation biologist by training, Kadis has held several ministerial posts over the past 25 years.
Cyprus’ president said on Wednesday (25 September) he was ready to immediately resume reunification talks over the ethnically divided island, urging regional rival Turkey to also engage in the effort.
French lawmakers, and even Macronโs new ministers, want to stop CETA โย but that doesnโt mean they will be able to.
Germany has one last chance to overturn the tariffs at a vote by member countries. But getting the required blocking majority looks to be out of reach โ and would be without precedent.
Greece and Cyprus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to press ahead with a subsea electric cable linking continental Europe to the East Mediterranean, the energy ministries of the two countries said on Saturday (21 September).
The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sunโs energyThe Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia.Itโs the third rooftop installation…
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Commission president hands out the top jobs in her new team.
The south of France has long been a safe space for Russians.
Turkey said it condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus.
German manufacturers are being strangled. The EU is feeling the pinch. Mario Draghi on Monday warned the EU may be staring at โslow agony.โ
Ursula von der Leyen is about to hand out key jobs in her team. Hereโs POLITICOโs version of the next Commission.
The European Union is ‘bankrolling’ Lebanese institutions without monitoring their compliance with fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch says.
At a meeting in Cyprus on Tuesday (3 September), agriculture ministers from nine member states urged the bloc’s executive to make rapid progress on policies on water security.
Cyprus will propose former agriculture minister Costas Kadis as a new EU commissioner, the government in Nicosia announced on Monday (19 August).
Costas Kadis is an environmental science professor who has held ministerial portfolios.
Ship from which sailor fell overboard finds him crying out for help in dead of night more than 100 miles off CyprusA sailor was rescued unharmed from the dark waters of the eastern Mediterranean early on Sunday nearly five hours after falling off a com…
The British Virgin Islands mix fun in the sun with dark money. Will the UK’s new Labour government act?
What has happened, who is behind the violence and how the UK government has responded.
The U.N. is seeking a trilateral meeting on Aug. 13 to explore ways to resume Cyprus reunification negotiations.
U.S. embassy in Beirut encourages American citizens in the country “to book any ticket available.”
Brussels seeks explanations from Nicosia on funding for gas terminal that China Petroleum Pipeline failed to build
The country’s half-century milestone cements that only democracy and international cooperation can provide solutions to 21st-century challenges.
Fifty-three asylum seekers โpushed backโ into UN-patrolled buffer zone that bisects the southern European country
Almost two months to the day after she became stranded in no manโs land in Nicosia, Mimi wants to go home. In her case, home means Camero…
What we know so far about Ursula von der Leyenโs next top team.
Ursula von der Leyen plans a new EU commissioner for the Mediterranean Sea region.
The 1974 collapse of the far-right junta brought relief โ but for some it took years to feel safeAfter a seven-year military dictatorship that tortured and exiled opponents, violently suppressed dissent, and restricted freedom of expression, a new dawn…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan said Sunday that his country was ready to build a Cyprus naval base “if necessary”, 50 years after Turkish forces invaded the now-divided island.
Cyprus on Saturday (21 July) marked the 50th anniversary of the bloody invasion of the Mediterranean island by Turkish troops with both sides as divided as ever over the territory’s future.
The Annan Plan proposed the establishment of a United Republic of Cyprus, a federation of two states. It was put to a referendum in 2004 and was approved by 65% of Turkish Cypriots in the north but overwhelmingly rejected by Greek Cypriots in the south.
Greek Cypriots in south wake to air raid sirens reminding of invasion while Turkish-occupied north celebratesCyprus has marked the landmark anniversary of 50 years of ethnic division amid markedly contrasting scenes: mourning in the south and euphoria …
“We believe a federal solution is not possible in Cyprus,” Turkey’s president said, adding that the Turkish north is the “apple of Turkeyโs eye.”
Fifty years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus split the island in two and displaced roughly 40 percent of the population, Turkish and Cypriot leaders still have radically different visions for the future of the divided island.ย
For exactly 50 years, since the war with Turkey began on 20 July 1974, the UN neutral territory in Cyprus has remained largely untouched. The buffer zone contains abandoned homes, closed businesses and the disused Nicosia international airport, an endu…
Both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will attend events on the island, which is divided between celebrations in the north and memorials in the south.
As both sides of the island mark the war that began on 20 July 1974, it is in the knowledge that almost nothing has changedFor 47 years Giorgos and Despoina Kleitou have lived at 52 Democracy Street.When they moved into the newly built, three-bedroom h…
EU leaders will fight back against โtoo powerfulโ von der Leyen as she assembles her team.
On 20 July 1974, thousands of Turkish troops landed in northern Cyprus, five days after an Athens-orchestrated coup had taken place on the islandThe Observer, 21 July 1974 Continue reading…
YouTuber-turned-MEP Panayiotou ran an X poll to decide whether he will vote for Ursula von der Leyen.
In July 1974, Colin Smith was the Observerโs correspondent in Cyprus. Five decades on, he recalls paratroopers dropping from the skies and a grand hotel under siegeFree Paphos Radio broadcast it in both Greek and English. โGreetings Greek Cypriots,โ he…
The health commissioner will return to Cyprus at the end of her mandate.
Dr. Ceren Kasฤฑm, Postdoctoral
Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Photo credit: MesserWoland, via Wikimedia Commons
INTRODUCTION
The first-ever binding European
Union (EU) legal instrument to…
Israel and Hezbollah traded fresh cross-border fire, as fears of a regional conflict grew after Israel revealed it had approved plans for a Lebanon offensive and the Iran-backed militants vowed to blanket their foe in rockets.
Despite strenuous efforts and stern warnings, the risk of an expanding conflict in the Middle East is rising by the hour.
Officials say Cyprus is โpillar of peaceโ amid shock at warning it could become a target for Lebanese groupCypriots have reacted with shock after threats from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that their country could become a target if it allows I…
Hassan Nasrallah warned of widespread attacks in Israel and accused Cyprus of facilitating Israeli military activities.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday (19 June) warned “no place” in Israel would be spared in case of full-blown war against the Lebanese group, and threatened Cyprus if it opened its airports to Israel.
Nicosia and Tel Aviv have stepped up defense cooperation in recent years.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warns of โwar without rulesโ if Israel launches full-scale invasion against Lebanese militiaThe leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warned of a war โwithout rules or ceilingsโ in the event of a full-scale Israeli offen…
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warns of โwar without rulesโ if Israel launches full-scale invasion against Lebanese militiaThe leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warned of a war โwithout rules or ceilingsโ in the event of a full-scale Israeli offen…
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warns of โwar without rulesโ if Israel launches full-scale invasion against Lebanese militiaThe leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warned of a war โwithout rules or ceilingsโ in the event of a full-scale Israeli offen…
Cue the lawsuits, potential fines, dueling allegations โย and, for Leonore Gewessler, a great campaign ad.
Their grandparents ushered in the sexual revolution. Today’s youth want to turn back the clock to 1950. Why?
Despite its division, Cyprus is an island of stability in an increasingly turbulent part of the world, and it offers a platform for political, economic, humanitarian and military reach at Europeโs intersection with the Middle East.
Intake of lawmakers after the election also includes some controversial figures to keep an eye onWhile attention has focused on gains made by far-right and centrist parties in the European Parliament elections, this termโs intake includes an assorted โ…
As Cypriot members of the European Parliament (MEPs) formally dressed in suits, commentated on the results of the European Parliament on national TV, one newly-elected parliamentarian,ย celebrated with a โdabโ.
Once a glamorous destination that attracted the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Abba, the Cypriot resort of Varosha was abandoned on 14 August 1974 when Turkey invaded. For 50 years, the town has been deserted, but in 2020 it was opened up to tourists. B…
New US tarriffs on Chinese goods, including semiconductors, have split the EU’s Social Democrats ahead of the elections, while the Commission designated Booking as a DMA gatekeeper.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Monday (13 May) urged Lebanese authorities to open the seas for migrant boats to reach Europe, amid soaring anti-Syrian sentiment and accusations the West is seeking to keep refugees in Lebanon.
The United Nations on Tuesday (30 April) warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was “on the immediate horizon” and that “incremental” progress by Israel on aid access to the enclave could not be used to prepare for or justify an oper…
As the European Commission prepares proposals for a further round of enlargement, the two decades since the 2004 ‘big bang’ enlargement showย the ups and downs that could lie ahead. On Wednesday (1 May), the EU commemorates 20 years since th…
EU leaders are expected to stress the importance of making progress in the Cyprus settlement talks, according to draft conclusions, seen by Euractiv, for an EU summit on 17-18 April, amid new calls from Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar for a ‘two-sta…