Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou stated that the redesign of the European Union’s migration system is a step in the right direction. The legislation includes provisions for solidarity between member states, screening of third country nationals upon entry to the EU, and faster processing of asylum claims. The pact also emphasizes the practical application of solidarity as a fundamental principle of the EU.
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.
Fact: Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou received an “initially positive response” from stakeholders on the issue of using workers from third countries to fill gaps in the labour market.
The fact described in the text is that the government aims to create a “fully digitised state” in order to offer quality services to citizens and businesses, facilitate the development of new knowledge-intensive sectors, increase the competitiveness of the Cyprus tax model, and meet the European Union’s targets for the green transition.
Fact: Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar stated that Israel “is not our enemy” and that the country has become a brand destination in education and tourism.