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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-06-25

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From: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>


CONTENTS

  • [01] Cypriot MP Nicos Nicolaides has been unanimously elected as chairman

    of the Parliamentary Assembly

  • [02] Financial Commissioner assumes duties July 1
  • [03] Cypriot Labour Minister meets Commissioner Vassiliou
  • [04] The international shipping community celebrates on Tuesday June 25

    the "Day of the Seafarer".

  • [05] Single portal now includes Structural Funds

  • [01] Cypriot MP Nicos Nicolaides has been unanimously elected as chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly

    Cypriot MP Nicos Nicolaides has been unanimously elected as chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe`s Subcommittee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage.

    Nicolaides was vice chairman of the Subcommittee since last January.

    Presenting his candidacy before the Subcommittee members, Nicolaides underlined his continuous interest on cultural issues, stemming from the fact that he comes from a multi-cultural country, noting that cultural issues with suitable handling could become a bridge of conciliation between people instead of a friction source.

    [02] Financial Commissioner assumes duties July 1

    A Financial Commissioner has been appointed and will assume his duties on July 1 to deal with complaints against financial institutions, the Board of the Financial Ombudsman announced on Tuesday.

    The Board said that with the appointment of Pavlos Ioannou as financial commissioner all procedures related to the Financial Ombudsman and its organizational structure will proceed swiftly.

    It added that the date the Ombudsman will begin receiving complaints will be announced later.

    [03] Cypriot Labour Minister meets Commissioner Vassiliou

    Cypriot Minister of Labour and Social Insurance Zeta Emilianidou met on Tuesday with EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth Androulla Vassiliou with whom she discussed the issue of growing unemployment in Cyprus and especially among young people.

    The Cypriot Minister briefed Vassiliou on the implementation of the schemes launched to curb unemployment, pointing out the big response by the young unemployed graduates for vocational training.

    On her part Vasiliou offered to assist in the context of her own competencies and referred especially on the issue of vocational training noting that special emphasis should be given to post-secondary school institutes.

    [04] The international shipping community celebrates on Tuesday June 25 the "Day of the Seafarer".

    According to a press release issued by the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, 55,000 seafarers serve onboard ships operated by the Member-Companies of the Chamber who are based in Cyprus.

    The Chamber recalls that Cyprus was one of the first countries to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, which upgrades the working conditions of seafarers on ships and establishes the minimum levels of hours of work.

    [05] Single portal now includes Structural Funds

    As of June 25 businesses across Europe will have easier access to much needed finance as the European Commission expands the single portal on EU finance, to include EU Structural Funds: the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF).

    Launched last month, the new single portal on EU finance provides easy, complete and up-to-date information on how entrepreneurs and SMEs can access over €100 billion of EU financing from various 2007-2013 programmes. Today's additions will double the number of partner banks and funds to over 1 000, further strengthening a vital information source for SME financing through guarantees, loans and venture capital.

    Access to finance is one of the most pressing problems facing SMEs in Europe. In the past two years almost one-third of the SMEs applying for bank loans were refused or ended up getting less than requested. International community celebrates seafarer's day


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