The cabinet approved a €165 million scheme on Thursday aimed at helping vulnerable people who took out housing loans under various state plans and were having difficulty repaying them.

The House plenum has passed a much-debated law giving the state the nod to guarantee up to €1 billion in loans to businesses and self-employed persons stricken by the coronavirus-related restrictions.

In a bid to speed up its vaccination coverage to 65% of the population with at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, GPs can give people over 30 the AstraZeneca jab.

The President’s Cabinet failed to reach a decision on pandemic measures following intense debate on Thursday afternoon, with reports saying an announcement was pushed back a day to give health experts time to visit the Palace for more consultations.

Cyprus posted a fiscal deficit of €1.19 billion, which corresponds to 5.7% of GDP, as the government tried to borrow its ways out of the pandemic, the Statistical Service said on Thursday.

The UK used to be among Cypriots’ first choices when it came to going to university, but things are changing. 

The general court of the EU said on Wednesday that the EU’s Intellectual Property Office should not have registered the name ‘Grilloumi’ by Swedish company Fontana Food AB.

Health professionals struggling to cope with the rising number of admissions of patients with coronavirus on Wednesday called on the public to be vigilant with measures aiming to curb the spread.

Thousands of cancelations from Russia to Cyprus in just a matter of hours are testing the island’s response to the health crisis, with companies pushing their programs later in the summer pending improvement on the pandemic front.

In April 2021 the Cypriot House of Representatives voted to amend certain provisions relating to the Assessment and Collection of Taxes Law 4/78.