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1051. President intends to meet Spehar ahead of the UNSC consultations on UNFICYP

Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, intends to have a meeting and discuss with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and head of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Elizabeth Spehar, prior to her departure for New York, where she will brief the UN Security Council on July 19, ahead of the adoption of the resolution for the renewal of UNFICYP’s mandate on July 30, CNA has learned....

1052. EU considers German, Belgian ministers for posts

European Union leaders are considering a list of top job candidates that would have German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen become president of the executive European Commission and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel the head of the European Council....

1053. Cyprus should not be on the list of countries not getting US arms

In 1987, the US Department of State placed the Republic of Cyprus on a list of countries to which sales and transfers of defense articles and services is prohibited under the International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR). ...

1054. Nicosia expects UN to maintain position on Varosha based on Security Council decisions

The government said on Friday that it expected from the UN to maintain their long-standing position with regard to the ghost-town of Famagusta, that is consistent with the UN Security Council decisions which are explicit and are now blatantly violated through the announcement made in the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus...

1055. Playing with fire

The emerging crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean over Turkey’s drilling activities in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) raise the prospect of an open Greco-Turkish conflict to a level higher than anytime since the Imia crisis...

1056. When necessity becomes history

1057. Johnson and Hunt fight for British PM job

1058. 'These will not be soft measures' says Juncker

1059. Christodoulides: Ozersay leadership ambitions a negative development for the Cyprus issue

1060. Chinese Ambassador to Cyprus: No one stands to win in a trade war

1061. Anastasiades meets Ozersay

1062. EU may freeze customs union talks with Turkey over Cyprus drilling

1063. Cyprus seeks EU sanctions against Turkey

1064.  Juncker says Cyprus issue 'one of his regrets'

1065. Palmer: Ankara has been repeatedly advised to change course

1066. Garber: US deeply concerned by Turkey's intention to drill off Cyprus

1067. British PM opposes Turkey’s planned drilling activities

1068. Trump’s bimonthly report on Cyprus sent to Congress

1069. Cyprus to carry out 8 drillings in the next 24 months

Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis announced on Tuesday that Cyprus is planning to carry out eight drillings in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), during the next 24 months....

1070. Barnier: The options are deal, no deal or no Brexit

1071. Barnier briefs Cyprus MPs on hard Brexit

1072. Revenue from ship management climbs

1073. Paphos hotel owner threatens to jump off the roof

A hotel owner in Paphos climbed on the rooftop of his establishment on Tuesday, threatening to jump unless city workers backed away from carrying out revitalization work...

1074. Political Will

1075. Guterres report: Low expectations for real progress

1076. UN envoy proposed 'new ideas' says Foreign Minister

1077. Cyprus and Lebanon to negotiate natural gas agreement

1078. 'Spectacular display of indecision' as referendum gets most votes

1079. Greece should have taken 10-year ‘timeout’ from eurozone, says Schaeuble

Former German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, widely regarded as the architect of austerity in eurozone crisis countries, said in an interview in the Financial Times on Friday that Greece should have taken a 10-year timeout from the bloc. ...

1080. Westward Bound