Cyprus is an attractive place for many Russians. They invest their money in luxurious apartments, or celebrate an expensive holiday there. But since the outbreak of war, life has changed.
The pound had the wind in the back of a rising interest rate in the first months of this year. Although British interest rates are still rising, the focus on foreign exchange markets has shifted to the economic problems and the threat of another Brexit squabble.
The government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will present legislation on Monday in which the Brexit agreements will be adjusted unilaterally. You can read it on the UK House of Commons website. The change will only increase tensions between the EU and the UK.
Shipping companies in the three largest maritime nations of the European Union, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, have doubled the amount of Russian oil they carry since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The Head of Kazakhstan, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, visited the Almaty Central Asian Institute of Environmental Studies. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev got acquainted with the activities of the institute and visited a new building erected using the latest world technologies. This building will allow the institute to fully provide itself with water and electricity.
He never succeeded in becoming a member of the British House of Commons, but nevertheless became “the most influential politician in the last 150 years of British history” due to Brexit, according to his biographer Michael Crick.
In response to the increase in cultivation costs, Cypriot potato growers declared on Thursday that they will take action if the state does not intervene to support them. According to the farmers, the increase in cultivation, production and export costs is on top of the already significant damage caused by the extreme weather conditions on the island during the winter months.
The Republican and nationalist Irish party Sinn Fein wants to organize a referendum in the next ten years to unite the British province of Northern Ireland and the EU country Ireland into a single country. “We have to win the heads and hearts of the People,” Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said in London on Tuesday.
World, As Seen from the most beautiful islands: Ireland and Cyprus