Cyprus municipalities more dependent on the state despite reform

Cyprus’s Local Government reform was designed to reduce municipalities’ financial dependence on the state. Phileleftheros’s own figures show the opposite has happened: dependence has risen, not fallen, by several percentage points.

Following its earlier reporting on the reform, Phileleftheros is now presenting each municipality’s revenue for 2025. According to the data obtained by the newspaper, the share of municipal revenue made up of state grants has increased, rather than decreased, and by...