Cyprus, despite the pandemic crisis, received more than 7,000 applications from asylum seekers in 2020, with Syrians being the first nationality among the applicants, said Minister of Interior Nikos...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe endorsed recently a set of recommendations for the Republic of Cyprus, as part of the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection...
20/01/2021
The population of the Government controlled area of the Republic of Cyprus is estimated at 888.000 at the end of 2019, compared to 875.900 at the end of 2018, recording an increase of 1,4%, according...
01/12/2020
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday that the government aims to shorten the time required to review asylum applications and deal with manifestly unfounded applications, as it prepares to...
17/06/2020
The European Union of 27 Member States (EU) granted protection status to 295 800 asylum seekers ιν 2019. Compared to 2018 (316 200), total number of persons granted protection status was down by 6%,...
27/04/2020
In 2018, around 672 300 persons acquired citizenship of one of the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU), down from 700 600 in 2017 and 843 900 in 2016, according to data issued by Eurostat,...
30/03/2020
The cabinet approved on Tuesday an action plan for a complete management of the increasing influx of migrants on the island.Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Nicos...
11/03/2020
The Cyprus government has put before the Attorney General of the Republic, Costas Clerides, its suggestions for addressing matters that have to do with the migration issue.Members of the ministerial...
06/03/2020
President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades expressed grave concern about the “organised and increasing illegal flow of migrants through the Green Line” and told the Turkish Cypriot leader...
04/03/2020
Minister of the Interior Nicos Nouris, has said that Cyprus cannot bear with the number of economic migrants arriving to the island, because it has surpassed the country`s capacity to host them,...
04/03/2020