The Cypriot government spent €500 million on the management of immigration over the space of four years between 2021 and 2024, Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Thursday.
Addressing the House audit committee, he explained that a third of that figure – €166m – was sourced from European Union funds.
He also touched on the matter of asylum applications, telling the committee that between 2021 and 2023, around 41,000 such applications
