Our View: Tax cuts are no cure for inflation
High prices, understandably, have been the main public issue in the last eight months. People are not happy when their standard of living is steadily falling because their disposable income ...
Our View: Diko has a point. Maybe the finance minister should resign
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos may have laughed at the suggestion by the Diko leader that he should resign over his oft-expressed opposition to the Great Sea Interconnector project but Nicolas ...
Geopolitics of the Mediterranean in the aftermath of Hormuz
The return of acute geopolitical risk to global energy markets is changing the way energy security is understood. The central question is no longer simply how to deliver energy as ...
Our View: Is govt being outwitted by NIMBYs?
Choosing a site for the new central prison is proving rather challenging for the government, which has made the matter more difficult by the slapdash decisions it has taken.
The ...
The tragic geography of frontline alignment: restraint, denial, and Cypriot security
In an anarchic international system devoid of overarching authority to guarantee collective security, small states situated along the maritime perimeter of a regional power inhabit an inherently perilous universe. Because ...
Marlon Brando was right
In May 1968, weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Marlon Brando appeared on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Brando – arguably the most influential dramatic actor ...
The ‘Limassolisation’ of everything: setting a dangerous precedent
By George Neocleous
For the past 15 years, the soundtrack of Limassol has been characterised by the rumbling of high-end luxury cars, foreign accents negotiating multi-million-euro property deals and the low, ...
Space war and other completely unnecessary distractions
When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons”, people naturally assume that something is ...
World is rethinking strength of US dollar
For decades, international markets treated US government bonds as a zero-risk asset and safe haven during times of crisis. However, the escalating US national debt is causing concern, broadly affecting ...
Market economies are failing society
Democratised market systems in most Western countries, including the diverse economies of the United States and Cyprus, are failing society in that wealth has become increasingly concentrated among the very ...
‘I cannot destroy humanity,’ AI tells the Cyprus Mail
There has been much doomsday talk recently following a claim by AI experts that unless its progress is curtailed there is a 10 per cent possibility it could destroy humanity in ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: The Cyprob world tour begins!
ALL KYPROULLA is laughing and mocking the former Disy big-wig and deputy Nikos Tornaritis for accepting the most ludicrous post ever thought up by a Prez to reward one of ...
Our View: Budget optimism requires a dose of caution
Finance Minister Makis Keravnos presented the 2027 state budget to the council of ministers on Wednesday. Considering this is the state budget with which President Nikos Christodoulides will seek re-election, it ...
From Troy to Trump: the ancient lessons we still refuse to learn
Dolly Parton and Donald Trump are same generation American entertainers. Self-made, a generous philanthropist, Dolly was smart, prolific musically, warmly loved. Trump, born to wealth, a wily taker, a prolific ...
Our View: Cyprus talks need results, not new ideas
The two leaders held their final meeting on Thursday, before they head to New York, with nothing to show two months after the visit of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...
Our View: Labour disputes are not the president’s business
President Nikos Christodoulides appears to have acquired a new expertise – mediator in labour disputes. On Wednesday morning he called the representatives of unions representing government workers on hourly pay for ...
Europe’s chess institutions face a test of neutrality — and the ECU just showed why it matters
By Bulat Latypov, Chief Communications Officer, Freedom24
I should say plainly, before anything else: I work for Freedom24, whose parent company, Freedom Holding Corp, is run by Timur Turlov — one ...
Our View: Preposterous to talk education with teens
The new school year has only just begun, and schoolkids have already embarked on union activity. Psem, the ludicrous association supposedly representing the interests of secondary school children, called for ...
Our View: Why are authorities so eager to treat tragic accidents as criminal acts?
The parents of a three-year-old boy who fell to his death on Saturday evening from the sixth-floor apartment in which the family lived were remanded in custody for five days ...
Not AI doom
Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case it was a young British artificial intelligence researcher called Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at the AI company ...
Our View: Important to remember anti-poaching activists on the side of the law
The campaign against activists involved in the fight against illegal bird-trapping moves to the House environment committee on Wednesday. Elam, which has always sympathised with the bird-trappers and viewed the ...
How many deputy mayors do we really need?
The reform of local government was not completed with the mergers of municipalities and communities. Its real test began when the new municipalities were called upon to operate in practice ...
European court decides on public access to shareholder information
By Kyriaki Stinga and Adonis Zachariou
On September 3, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgement in Case C-798/24, Jautiva, addressing the compatibility of unrestricted public ...
Great Sea Interconnector ties Cyprus to regional volatility
The geopolitical contest for strategic primacy across the Levantine Basin has now converged upon the seabed, centred on the execution of the Great Sea Interconnector.
Conceived as a 1,208-kilometre high-voltage ...
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