Fact: Architects and engineers involved in the construction of a monastery at the environmentally protected Natura 2000 site in Cape Greco will appear before a disciplinary board.
Attorney General George Savvides supports a bill criminalizing threatening and condemnable behaviors on the Internet and Mass Media. The bill aims to draw a line between freedom of speech and recklessness, focusing on manifestly threatening and insulting behaviors. Savvides assures that the bill does not target criticism or expression of opinions, and journalists with professional standards have nothing to fear from it. The bill requires the Attorney General’s consent for criminal prosecution, ensuring that private individuals cannot misuse it.
President Nikos Christodoulides wants his cabinet to do more to bring to fruition the government’s “digital citizen” application, which aims to offer citizens state services in an evolutionary way. He announced the planned application in January and expects it to enter service in the second half of the year.
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone said his team must prove they are worthy of being among Europe’s top-eight teams as they prepare to host Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League quarter-final first-leg clash.
Cyprus is positioned to become a regional center for technology and innovation, with Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Nikodemos Damianou stating this at the 14th Nicosia Economic Congress. Damianou revealed an ambitious plan for Cyprus to be the first country fully covered by a high-speed fiber optic network. Additionally, a substantial 23% of the funds from the Resilience and Recovery Plan were allocated to technological upgrading.
The latest evaluation report on Cyprus’ national health scheme Gesy stated that in the past three years, direct healthcare expenses for patients were reduced from 50 to around 15 per cent.
Consumers are becoming less skeptical about bitcoin, with just under a third of respondents expecting its price to drop sharply by the end of 2024.
Fact: Cabinet approved the creation of a national autism strategy and action plan, covering the period until 2028 with 53 actions under seven thematic pillars.
Fact: Attorney-general George Savvides called for further action by the police to protect public prosecutors following bombings of prosecutors’ cars.
Three minors were recovered and 19 migrants were rescued after their dinghy hit rocks at the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea near Turkey.