Nikos Anastasiadi's cabinet

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Nikos Anastasiadis

The cabinet of Nikos Anastasiadis has been the government of the Republic of Cyprus since March 1, 2013 and replaced the cabinet of Dimitris Christofias II .

prolog

After Anastasiadis was elected President on February 24, 2013, he agreed with the DIKO party on a coalition government consisting of eleven members.

Five ministers come from Anastasiadis' party DISY , another four from the coalition partner and an independent economist has been appointed finance minister . The centrist European party is represented by a minister in the government.

Cabinet members

Coat of arms of the Republic of Cyprus
Ministry Official Greek spelling Political party
Prime Minister Nikos Anastasiadis Νίκος Αναστασιάδης DISY
Foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulidis Ιωάννης Κασουλίδης DISY
Finance minister Michalis Sarris Μιχάλης Σαρρής Non-party
Harris Georgiades from April 3, 2013 Χάρης Γεωργιάδης DISY
Interior minister Sokratis Hasikos Σωκράτης Χάσικος DISY
Defense Minister Photis Photiou Φώτης Φωτίου DIKO
Socratis Hasikos from March 23, 2014 (interim) Σωκράτης Χάσικος DISY
Christophoros Fokaides from April 7, 2014 Χριστόφορος Φωκαΐδης DISY
Minister of Education Kiriakos Kenebezos Κυριάκος Κενεβέζος DIKO
Kostas Kadis from March 14, 2014 Κώστας Καδής
Minister of transport
Marios Dimitriadis from March 14, 2014 Μάριος Δημητριάδης
Ministry of Energy, Industry, Trade and Tourism Giorgos Lakkotripis Γεώργιος Λακκοτρύπης DIKO
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Nikos Kougialis Νίκος Κουγιάλης EK
Minister of Labor Charis Georgiadis Χάρης Γεωργιάδης DISY
Zeta Aimilianidou from April 3, 2013 Ζέτα Αιμιλιανίδου
Minister of Justice Ionas Nikolaou Ιωνάς Νικολάου DISY
Minister of Health Petros Petridis Πέτρος Πετρίδης DIKO
Philippos Patsalis from March 14, 2014 Φίλιππος Πατσαλής
George Pamboridis from July 27, 2015

Justice Minister Nikolaou resigned on May 2, 2019.

Reign

Cyprus conflict

Although Anastasiadis in his time for the Annan plan had spoken, the Turkish prime minister rejected Recep Tayyip Erdogan , a ratification of the so-called Ankara Protocol from continuing. This would have meant the recognition of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey , one of the requirements for Turkey to join the EU . In February 2014, however, the attempt was made to resume talks.

As early as May 2001, the European Court of Human Rights had ruled that Turkey had to answer for human rights violations against Greek Cypriots since 1974; in May 2014 he reiterated the judgment. He awarded the victims and dependents a compensation payment of 90 million euros. So far, Turkey has refused to pay out on the grounds that it does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus and therefore does not see any obligation to comply with the judgment.

Financial crisis

Because of the tense financial situation in the country, the president also formed an economic council headed by Nobel Prize winner Christopher Pissarides . This council was supposed to work out proposals on how to lead the republic out of the financial crisis. Negotiations on possible financial aid from the EU, which had been requested by the previous government of Cyprus, also had to be started in order to prevent national bankruptcy . Anastasiadis pointed out, however, that there would be no financial transaction tax or a haircut with him. On the night of March 16, 2013, however, the finance ministers of the Eurogroup decided at a meeting in Brussels that private creditors also had to contribute a flat rate of up to 9.9% on their savings. The ministers instructed the banks to freeze the relevant amounts in order to prevent a bank run . On the same Saturday morning, the Central Bank of Cyprus also completely paralyzed banking trading. Online banking was discontinued and transactions and transfers within and outside Cyprus were frozen. In addition, cash was only available up to a daily limit at the ATMs. The few credit unions that worked on Saturdays went out of service and closed their branches. It was also decided not to reopen all banks for an indefinite period. The Cypriot stock exchange also stopped trading.

Originally the aid package for Cyprus was supposed to amount to 17 billion euros, but the EU hoped to save around 5.8 billion euros through the compulsory levy and promised Cyprus a little over 10 billion euros. This aid package should be adopted by the Cypriot parliament on Sunday evening. Since there was no majority in favor of it in advance, the vote was postponed to the following Monday and then postponed for another day. When the 56-member parliament finally had to decide on the aid package on March 19, 2013, it could not win a vote for it. 36 MPs voted against, 19 abstained and one MP was absent from the vote.

On March 28, 2013, the banks resumed operations after a ten-day break with increased security protection. Money transactions continued to be restricted; a customer was not allowed to withdraw more than 300 euros in cash per account. Payments by credit cards abroad with amounts of over 5,000 euros per month were prohibited and every movement of over 5,000 euros was checked. Monetary amounts over 100,000 euros remained frozen.

After renegotiating with the Troika, the EU allowed deposits of up to 100,000 euros to be exempted from compulsory levies, so that the Cypriot parliament was able to initiate further required reforms on April 18, 2013. The corporate tax was raised from 10% to 12.5%. In addition, taxes on interest income were set at 30%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ afp.com: Finance: Cyprus President Anastasiades forms new government. In: welt.de . February 27, 2013, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cyprus's new government , gr.euronews.com (Greek)
  3. ↑ a b Cabinet reshuffle (Greek) , philenews.com
  4. ↑ asc / dpa / AFP / Reuters: Cyprus: Justice Minister resigns because of a series of murders that have not been discovered for years. In: Spiegel Online . May 2, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Reuters: After the presidential election: Erdogan rejects changing the Cyprus policy. In: handelsblatt.com . February 25, 2013, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Cyprus occupation: Turkey has to pay millions in compensation. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 12, 2014, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ President appoints government , sueddeutsche.de
  8. ↑ Anastasiadis against Financial Transaction Tax , handelsblatt.com
  9. ↑ Cyprus rejects haircut as a condition for rescue pact , handelsblatt.com
  10. ↑ Bank customers have to support the rescue plan , handelsblatt.com
  11. ↑ Transfers impossible , welt.de
  12. ↑ Cyprus stock exchange suspends trading , handelsblatt.com
  13. ↑ Cyprus is facing ruin , handelsblatt.com
  14. ↑ Bank opening in Cyprus, Zeit.de
  15. ^ Cyprus decides to raise taxes , handelsblatt.com