CoLA a ‘huge reform’ to the benefit of workers, says Christodoulides

The government’s reform of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) is “a huge reform”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, just a day before a three-hour general strike called by the unions.

“The reform we are making with CoLA is huge, in the framework we have presented publicly. Reforms unavoidably lead to reactions. But the main criterion of our aim, of our policy on the specific issue, is to modernise the 1960