There is no acceptable face of war
By Gavin Jones WITH DETAILED images readily available of executions carried out by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq doing the rounds on social...
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Countdown to quantitative easing?
By Stelios Papadopoulos At a Financial Times banking summit, Vitor Constancio, the European Central Bank’s vice president, gave a strong hint that the central bank...
The Luxleaks revelations and their likely impact
By Stelios Papadopoulos On November 6 the international consortium of investigative journalists published documents of tax agreements between Luxembourg and 340 multinational firms in a...
If you can’t beat them, join them
By Demetrios Nicolaides WITH future hydrocarbons wealth an almost certainty, the prospect of economic prosperity and a high quality of life is slowly becoming a...
A smokescreen cloaking the reality
By Gavin Jones POLITICAL parties within Europe which have employed immigration as one of their primary platforms have tapped into the rich seam of prejudice and angst, real or imagined, that has...
The spirits of Mandela and Lincoln
By Timothy Spyrou IN THE dying month of this year and the fourth month of the new, mankind will pass two anniversaries with barely a...
Speaking ‘truth to stupid’
By Maria-Christina Doulami WITH The Newsroom Season 3 having just begun and Kill the Messenger hitting the big screens recently, journalism returns to centre stage....
The fall of the would-be emperor
By Alon Ben-Meir President Erdogan has recently come under intense criticism for his unwillingness to come to the aid of the beleaguered Syrian Kurds in...
It’s no love match, but divorce is not an option for US and Turkey
By Andrew Finkel RECENT EVENTS in Kobani are a lesson in how relationships between nations can grow dysfunctional. Three weeks ago, Washington, alarmed that Islamic...
Government bond rating upgrade from Moody’s (Updated)
By Constantinos Psillides BOND CREDIT ratings business Moody’s has upgraded Cyprus’ government bond rating to B3 from Caa3 and has also changed the outlook on...
Remembering the sacrifices of the war dead
By Seb Pollington BRITISH High Commissioner Ric Todd has led a series of activities to mark this year’s remembrance commemorations, including a wreath laying ceremony...
Time for the government to embrace innovation
By Dimis Michaelides THE WORLD has embraced innovation. More and more people are imagining and implementing new and valuable things at a relentlessly accelerating pace....
Naftali Bennett’s wake-up call to the west
By John V. Whitbeck NAFTALI Bennett, Israel’s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli...
Don’t underestimate danger to the talks from gas issue
By Stefanos Stefanou TURKEY’S recent provocations in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus are perhaps the most serious since the declaration of the pseudo-state. As...
Avoiding the ‘resource curse’
By Theodore Panayotou DESPITE the government’s determination not to give in, Turkey’s threats and actions within Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone concerning the exploitation of natural...
Did Shakespeare visit Cyprus? Of course he did
By David Aitken SHAKESPEARE visited Cyprus in 1589, when he was twenty-five. There is no other possible explanation. Over the years, as I have tussled...
Barbaros, rights, resolutions and sheer reality
By Nicos Rolandis IN MY long career I have been taught that, in difficult moments, those who are small and weak remain and suffer alone,...
Cyprus: Time to think again
By Gustave Feissel WITH THE appointment of a new special advisor of the UN secretary-general on Cyprus and the recent fiftieth anniversary of the presence...
EU role in MidEast peace
By John V Whitbeck ON OCTOBER 12, at a donors’ conference in Cairo, participants pledged US$5.4 billion toward the reconstruction of Gaza. However, numerous participants...
The importance of implementing the Minsk protocol
By Borys Humeniuk ON SEPTEMBER 5, the Trilateral Contact Group of official delegates of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE met representatives of Russia-backed militants from...
