Demolition begins at hotel built over human remains
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A hotel built in Lapithos during the 1980s is being demolished after it emerged that its foundations were knowingly laid over a burial site of missing persons. It has taken four decades for the discovery to lead to the wrecking ball.
Parliament has introduced a judicial review for any non-EU national held in detention for longer than six months, a rare instance of the legislature curbing the state's power to wait. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry announced a scheme to provide road access to landlocked properties, a bureaucratic unlock for owners of trapped farmland.
The presidential palace describes the national question as being at a critical juncture, which is the traditional status of the national question. While maps circulate of four potential new border crossings, the residents of Tillyria are already protesting against the potential non-opening of the Kokkina border crossing.