Greek Press

POLITIS: “Christofias’ easy solution” In an unprecedented move, House President and AKEL leader Demetris Christofias launched an attack against the paper on Thursday. Referring to the report highlighting growing opposition to Interior Minister Andreas Christou over the issue of citizenship for children from mixed marriages in the north, Christofias charged the paper with attempting to undermine the party. Instead of his supporting his minister from members of the coalition government, he preferred to attack the paper.

PHILELEFTHEROS: “National delirium from Greece to Cyprus” The Greek national football team left Europe speechless and provoked national delirium on Thursday night. A few seconds before the end of the first half in extra time, Traianos Dellas sent the ball in the back of the net with a header from a superbly taken corner to knock out the Czech Republic and send Greece to the final of Euro 2004. The goal sparked screams of delirium from the millions of Greek fans watching around the world.

SIMERINI: “Olympic Flame not going to occupied north” The Olympic Flame will not be passing through the occupied north, according to reliable sources. The Organising Committee ‘Athens 2004’ which is responsible for the Olympics along with the International Olympic Committee has flashed the red light on the idea by writing to the Cyprus Olympic Committee telling them the route of the Flame would remain as initially planned, sources told the paper.

ALITHIA: “Government in chaos” DISY deputy Ionas Nicolaou made a number of accusations in an interview with the paper, saying the present government was in chaos, had no clear policy on the basic aspects of the Cyprus problem and was guilty of reacting immediately with improvisations. Nicolaou criticised the government for backtracking after initially going ahead with giving citizenship to children of mixed marriages in the occupied north.

KYPROS SIMERA: “Co-operation with CIA” After the arrest of a 43-year-old Pakistani arch-terrorist in a country house in Larnaca by the CIA with the help of Cypriot intelligence service (KYP), the secret services of the US, Greece and Cyprus are now on ‘silent alert’. According to reports Al Qaeda has a ‘dormant cell’ operating in Cyprus which plans to hit Anglo-American and Israeli targets in Cyprus as well as sabotage Athens during the Olympic Games.

HARAVGHI: “Systematic undermining” AKEL Secretary General Demetris Christofias accused Politis newspaper of systematic undermining of the party by taking advantage of the fuss created over the citizenship afforded to children of mixed marriages. The paper wrote that the issue was being used to draw the Interior Minister into an internal feud rocking the left-wing party. Christofias said he did not wish to deal with systematic undermining of the party and felt saddened that a paper could fall so low.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.