Cyprus

The island country of Cyprus appointed its first-ever Minister for Tourism on Wednesday in an effort to continue to grow tourism in the Meditteranean island nation. The new deputy minister is Savvas Perdios, a former hotel executive. He will be...

Some surprising revelations emerged from the results of an EU study announced recently. The 2017 study, by Eurostat, the official statistical authority of the European Union, reported how much the typical European household spends on recreation. The figures, which were released on...

Greece will definitely benefit from the recent agreement with Israel and Cyprus for the construction of the East Med gas pipeline, according to a report in the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. The proposed pipeline will transport natural gas from the...

On Sunday morning, diplomats from Nicosia refuted Turkey's claims that a joint military exercise took place south of Cyprus between the American and the Turkish armies earlier this week. According to the Cypriot state TV RIK, diplomats from Nicosia said...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a statement on his personal Twitter account on Saturday night accusing the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the Turkish occupation of the northern part of Cyprus, calling him an ''occupier''. https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1076553913065705475 The...

The leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Israel have reached an agreement to develop the East Med natural gas pipeline, which will transport natural gas to the E.U. via Cyprus and Greece. The three leaders met on Thursday in the Israeli...

According to the annual report ''Construction and Housing Statistics, 2016'' released on Thursday by the Statistical Service of Cyprus, construction activity registered an increase of 20.7 percent in 2016 compared to an increase of just 0.2 percent recorded in...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Turkey to abide by international law in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean during a joint summit on Thursday with the leaders of Cyprus and Israel. Tsipras' comments followed another day of tension...

The first-ever joint Greece-Palestine ministerial committee held its first meeting on Tuesday in Athens. The committee's work was aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two countries, especially in the areas of energy, culture and the economy, with particular emphasis being...

The majority of tourists who visited Cyprus between June and September of 2018 said that they were "satisfied to a great extent" with their stay, according to a survey commissioned by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO). The survey of visitors...