Tariffs as a tool of geoeconomics
Just over 100 days since “Liberation Day” – the moment President Trump unveiled his new international trade rules – a seismic shift is underway in the global economic order.
On August 7, the latest ...
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How the world has fared this past week: Gaza, the Fed and The Late Show
At long last, some Western leaders have found the political will to try to put a stop to the killing in Gaza. President Emmanuel Macron became the first G7 leader ...
Football can show us the way – sometimes
A friend commented on my last week’s article as being too morbid. Writing a weekly column on domestic and world current affairs these days is certainly no picnic. Wars, ...
Trump’s tariff war is just foreplay
With demolishing the independence of the Federal Reserve in his sights, Trump’s almost complete dominance of the governance of the United States will be complete
Trump’s campaign against ...
Our judicial system is cracking under the weight of its own incompetence
Our judicial system cannot help keeping itself out of adverse publicity as, following last week’s Supreme Judicial Council decision not to confirm Doria Varoshiotou as a judge, we had ...
Our institutions are being eroded, at home and abroad
I have often written in these pages about the importance of independent institutions as a way to promote good governance in a country and the key role they have played ...
The war that should never have happened
The world has long tried to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and rightly so.
US President Donald Trump never ceases to proclaim that had he been president in 2022, the ...
The unbearable predictability of Donald Trump
During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...
Cyprus and the Schengen zone
Many of us here in Cyprus are often annoyed at the inconvenience we face when travelling from Larnaca to somewhere in Europe. Apart from the limited direct flights to European ...
The rise and fall of American credit
The recent downgrade by the rating agency Moody’s of America’s AAA rating has passed by largely unnoticed among the plethora of world and local events taking place.
For ...
Whatever happened to the world trade war?
It’s been just over a month since “liberation day” was announced by President Trump and things have zigzagged in different directions since then.
The last development in this saga, ...
Europe may have to choose between the US and China
The dilemma that Europe (and this includes the UK) would have to choose between the world’s two largest economic giants would have seemed preposterous a few months ago. Until ...
Cyprus needs fundamental change not rehashed recipes for PR
I read with interest, and eventual dismay, the Easter article of President Nikos Christodoulides in Kathimerini newspaper where he enthused about his recent visit to the US and the miracle ...
Your dollar, your problem. How there may be a silver lining out of this chaos
Writing an opinion piece makes you realise that actual change does not come about from well-meaning people analysing problems and coming up with good ideas.
Change, rather, is usually the ...
Tariff Trump has misdiagnosed the sickness
April to June are the months where students and parents alike go through the hellish exam period in schools and universities. This year, it is a no less testing period ...