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The Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Mr Yiorgos Lakkotrypis, participated in the EU Energy Council, on 4 December 2019, in Brussels. For the tour de table, follow the link: https://youtu.be/2ZsD3ZNK0mY For the Minister's statements, follow the link: https://youtu.be/hkedx9cCWzc

The unemployed persons, registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of November 2019, reached 24.495 persons. Based on the seasonally adjusted data that show the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for November 2019 decreased to 20.860 persons in comparison to 21.233 in the previous month. (Table 1)In comparison with November 2018, a decrease of 4.019 persons or 14,1% was recorded, attributed mainly to the sectors of trade (a decrease of 676), constructio...

The Office of the Law Commissioner has recently published the following edition:“The Establishment of a Deputy Ministry of Tourism, the Appointment of a Deputy Minister of Tourism to the President and for Related Matters Laws, 2018 - (English translation and consolidation) – ΓΕΝ(Α) – L148”The above publication is on sale from the Government Printing Office. (MG/II)

I am very pleased to welcome to Cyprus the Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean, my good friend Nasser Kamel.I note with satisfaction that today’s meeting is our second in the space of the past three months, following our meeting in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, in September. Additionally, I of course had the privilege of being hosted by Nasser at the 4th Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona, in October. This clearly goes to sho...