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If a private business found that its operations could not be run efficiently with the number of workers it employed, the obvious thing would be to hire more workers. If, ...

The reform of the pension system is, reportedly, the next big project that will be undertaken by the government, now that it has fully restored CoLA, for the benefit of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has completed more than half his term and if there is one thing we have seen in these 32 months it is that his is a government that ...

Although the contents of the so-called peace plan for Ukraine, reportedly agreed by the United States and Russia, have not been officially revealed, from what has been reported one thing ...

The election of Tufan Erhurman as leader of the Turkish Cypriots raised the mood around the Cyprus problem, after eight years of deadlock that was reconfirmed after every failed attempt ...

There is no doubt that under the Nikos Christodoulides presidency, Cyprus’ relations with the United States have drastically improved. The improvement in all fields has been so spectacular that the ...

The intervention of the government in the labour market will not end with the change in the calculation of the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which was finally agreed last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

The visit of Tufan Erhurman, the newly elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots, to Ankara on Thursday for his eagerly awaited meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan must have disappointed all ...

There was another twist to the saga of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) on Wednesday at the third intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece in Athens, which, apart from the ...

As if to underline its skill at presentation and marketing, the government has repeatedly referred to its proposed reform of the tax regime as a ‘flagship project’ and as ‘emblematic ...

Akel, which has raised the alarm on several occasions recently about the property purchases by third country nationals, has submitted two bills to the legislature aimed at restricting these transactions. ...

The government should take note of the warning issued by president of the Fiscal Council, Michalis Persianis, in the preface of the council’s activity report for 2024. Although these were ‘...

When it comes to energy projects, the credibility rating of Cyprus governments is depressingly low. If there is one department in which there has been real continuity between the Anastasiades ...

Cyprus will take over the presidency of the EU Council on January 1, 2026, and our government has been making sure there is not a single person on the island who is ...

The Cyprus chamber of commerce (Keve) and the federation of employers and industrialists (Oev) deserve congratulations for turning down the government’s proposal on CoLA. In fact, it was a ...

Many would have thought that President of Fifa, Gianni Infantino was joking when, earlier in the week, he announced his new idea, the ‘Fifa Peace Prize – Football Unites the World.” ...

When deputies attempted to end through legislation the secrecy surrounding the donations made to the charity vehicle run by the president’s wife, Philippa Karsera-Christodoulides, the president refused to sign ...

It was very good to see Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis visiting Cyprus for the sole purpose of attending Sunday’s church memorial service for former president, party leader ...

It is astonishing that even before the council of ministers, on Wednesday, approved the six amendment bills that have been labelled, rather liberally, ‘tax reform’, President Nikos Christodoulides called on ...

In Cyprus we have always laboured under the illusion that the State has innate wisdom and we demand it to interfere in all aspects of our life, like a caring ...

Many will have been surprised reading the report that Power Energy Cyprus (PEC), which is building a power station in Vassiliko, and Greece energy company Energean signed a letter of ...

The period of zero VAT on certain basic consumer goods – baby milk, nappies, female hygiene products and frozen fruit and veg – that was due to expire at the end of ...

The attempt by the government to introduce a more honest staff evaluation system in the civil service did not last very long. There was an outcry when it was first ...