A year in the island's bail-in plan, Russian offshore companies are still an important client of the Cypriot banking system.

The President of the ETEKA group and Atromitos F.C. Giorgos Spanos, has been arrested for his involvement in an illegal fuel smuggling ring.

MEP Marilena Koppa announced her independence from PASOK. Hereafter I have no organizational relationship with PASOK . I remain as an independent MEP in the Group of Socialists and Democrats," she said.

Alexis Tsipras officially opened his party’s election campaign, saying that local and European Parliament elections are seen by his party as a referendum "for the memorandums, the troika and the inhuman policies of austerity"