The European Commission announced on Monday the official decision for the registration of halloumi/hellim as a protected designation of origin (PDO) product, protecting it against imitation and misuse across the EU.
CYPRUS
A new digital registry obliging Cyprus-based companies to declare their true owners puts the east Mediterranean island nation in line with European Union regulations against terror financing and organized crime, the country’s commerce and energy minister said on Tuesday.
![Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic (center) and his counterparts Nikos Dendias (right) of Greece and Nikos Christodoulides (left) of Cyprus are seen at a press conference after a meeting in Belgrade, on Monday. [Andrej Cukic/EPA]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/dendias_serbia_-_epa-320x200.jpg)
Turkey’s attempt to expand its influence in the Balkans was, among other things, discussed in the first tripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of Greece, Serbia and Cyprus, held in Belgrade on Monday.
![In this Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, Cyprus' halloumi cheeses are seen after salting at river land farm in Kampia village near Nicosia, Cyprus. [Petros Karadjias/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Halloumi_Cheese_ap-320x200.jpg)
The European Union has recognized halloumi as a traditional product of Cyprus, which will shield the country’s top food export from an increasing number of foreign producers using the cheese’s name to muscle into a 224-million-euro ($267 million) market, the Cypriot agriculture minister said Tuesday.
Cyprus’ Health Ministry says the spread of the UK variant of the coronavirus throughout the east Mediterranean island nation has marked an “alarming” increase, making up 95.5% of all new infections from Feb. 16 through Mar. 6.
![Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the Maximos Mansion, ahead of celebrations marking 200 years from the Greek War of Independence, in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday. [Louiza Vradi/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mitsotakis_anastasiades_reuters-320x200.jpg)
The European Union must ensure “credible implementation” of a dual-track approach to relations with Turkey, mixing the prospect of deeper trade ties with a threat of economic sanctions, Greece’s prime minister said on Wednesday.
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (l) welcomes Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Wednesday, ahead of the military parade on March 25, marking 200-years since the war that resulted in Greece’s independence from the Ottoman Empire and rebirth as a nation.
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Cyprus has rejected a draft prepared for a summit of EU leaders this week which seeks to deepen trade ties with Turkey, describing it as “totally unacceptable.”
Law enforcement authorities have tracked down and fined a woman who was seen in a video dancing in a Greek tavern in Limassol against pandemic health protocols.
Cyprus has been stretched beyond its limits in accommodating asylum seekers and migrants and needs support from its European Union partners, a government official said on Friday.
Cyprus suspended AstraZeneca shots for Covid-19 on Monday pending a review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), its health ministry said.
More than a quarter of Covid-19 cases detected in Cyprus are of a highly contagious variant of the virus first identified in Britain last autumn and may explain a recent spike, authorities on the island said on Thursday.
![Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the administration foreign policy priorities on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 10, in Washington. [Ting Shen/Pool via AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Blinken_House_AP-320x200.jpg)
The United States has spoken up about actions that violate international law in the Eastern Mediterranean that includes Turkey’s actions against Greece, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.
![Two men cycle along a row of razor wire along the southern side of a UN buffer zone that cuts across the ethnically divided Cyprus, during sunset near village of Astromeritis, on Tuesday. [Petros Karadjias/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cyprus_Migrants_Razor-wire_AP-320x200.jpg)
The government of ethnically split Cyprus came under fire on Tuesday over a decision to lay razor wire along a section of a UN controlled buffer zone.
Skevi Antoniadou, a municipality official in charge of organizing Carnival festivities applies make-up inside a warehouse in the southern coastal city of Limassol, Cyprus before a carnival parade, Thursday, March 4.
The Cyprus issue was the focus of a telephone conversation between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday morning.
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