E.U. FOREIGN ministers yesterday approved the protocol extending the customs union between Turkey and the EU to all member states, including Cyprus.
The protocol, expected to be forwarded to Ankara so it can be signed as soon as possible, maybe as early as tomorrow, is considered a de facto recognition of Cyprus by Turkey.
Sir,
I was reading the article called ‘No democratic miracle in Lebanon’ by Gwynne Dyer in the Cyprus Mail on June 10, 2005, when I came across with a bizarre statement.
MEASURES to beef up airport security will be put in place immediately in a bid to avert a repeat of last Wednesday’s incident when a man managed to drive his car onto the Larnaca airport taxiway, causing chaos along the way.
AN IMMINENT multi-million pound deal for the upgrade of the two airports will stay on track no matter what, the government insisted yesterday, irrespective of suspicions that the tenders were weighted in favour of the preferred bidder.
THE former co-chairman of AremisSoft, an affiliate of Cyprus-based IT company GlobalSoft, is being forced to pay $200 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle fraud charges brought against him four years ago.
THE extraordinary growth of the north’s economy since the opening of the checkpoints may be heavily dependent on transactions with the Republic, but are the two communities really coming closer together or are they going their separate ways?
A MILITARY plane carrying French journalist Florence Aubenas, stopped over in Cyprus on Sunday as she headed back to France after spending the past five months hostage in Iraq.
“She looked fine. Very happy to be free and was a bit emotional,” said Christodoulos Pashiardis, Under-Secretary to President Papadopoulos.
THERE IS religious turbulence in the village of Lythrodontas.
The decision to have an iconographer paint various members of the community, including himself holding his paintbrush, inside the walls of the church has angered some in the village.
CONTRIBUTIONS to the social insurance fund will have to increase dramatically by 2011 if the scheme remains unchanged, Labour Minister Christos Taliadoros warned yesterday.
Warnings about the viability of the fund have increased recently, with government warnings that the fund could collapse if changes are not introduced as soon as possible.
THE two big bears at the Limassol zoo will on Friday fly to their new home, a wildlife park in Hungary, it was reported yesterday.
After having spent years in cramped conditions at the Limassol zoo, the bears will be given a chance to re-adapt to wildlife and eventually be released in the park.
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.
