Day: September 6, 2022

EU Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, has underlined that member states need to move ahead with new vaccination strategies against COVID-19, utilising the new adapted vaccines, and stressed that there is “no time to waste”, in a statement to …

CYPRUS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGYFORECAST FOR THE SEA AREA OF CYPRUS (A)FOR THE PERIOD FROM 0600 06/09/2022 UNTIL 0600 07/09/2022Area covered is 8 kilometers seawards.Winds are in BEAUFORT scale. Times are local times.Atmospheric pressure at the time o…

A new report prepared by an international group of scientists and published in the authoritative journal “Reviews of Geophysics”, identifies the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (EMME) as a climate change hot spot, and concludes that the regi…

The Department of Meteorology released a yellow warning for thunderstorms on Tuesday. The warning applies from 12:00 pm until 18:00 pm.According to the announcement, the isolated heavy thunderstorms are likely to affect mainly the mountainous and the …

A decrease in both the area and value of the new building permits issued in the first half of 2022, was recorded according to data published by the Statistical Service on Tuesday.During the period January – June 2022, a total of 3,898 building permits…

The Cypriot Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth on Tuesday signed a €20 million contract for the provision of digital support services, paving the way for the transition towards digital public schools.The contract was signed in a ceremony at the P…

The United Kingdom is “determined” to find a negotiated settlement to the long-standing Cyprus issue, the British Minister for Europe Graham Stewart told the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon.As he added, that was why he met with the Cypriot Forei…

EUROPOL Executive Director Cathrine De Bolle has said that the cooperation between EUROPOL and Cyprus Police is extremely positive and fruitful.De Bolle, who is currently on an official visit to Cyprus, met on Tuesday at the Police Headquarters with t…

A delegation of Cypriot parliamentarians called on the EU to enhance its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean region and show its solidarity towards Cyprus, during the 21st Inter-Parliamentary Conference session on the Common Foreign and Security Pol…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Tuesday, September 6, with the President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Caputová, who is paying an official visit to Greece.During the meeting, Mitsotakis thanked the Slovak President for the participation o…