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 ...
Netanyahu’s expansionist obsessions have become mainstream in Israel
It has been a year since Canada, France and the United Kingdom officially recognised the State of Palestine (under Israeli occupation, final border to be determined). The killings by Israelis ...
Trump’s foreign policy: unconventional methods, traditional goals
What if Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not as chaotic as it looks?
Last year, I argued that beneath the spectacle, contradictions and unpredictability, Trump’s foreign policy had ...
Revisiting Cyprus’ doctrine of necessity
Like an old dog barks now and again to remind himself he is a dog, an old Cypriot scribbler feels the need to write about the Cyprus problem now and ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Will Prez use election to destroy another party?
ETHNARCH Junior is going through a rather difficult period as he is having difficulty controlling some of his top dogs who want the party to announce its support for Nik ...
Our View: President’s bigging up Israeli visit could play into Turkey’s hands
Welcoming the President of Israeli Isaac Herzog to the presidential palace on Thursday morning, President Nikos Christodoulides said the two would discuss “how we can work together on regional developments ...
Cyprus’ prison crisis: why new capacity can’t wait
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
A society reveals its moral temperature through the order it imposes when the guilty are placed behind bars. Justice doesn’t rise from the ashes of neglected ...
There are solutions to all Cyprob sticking points
Since 1963, Cyprus has been in an anomalous political situation, while since 1974, one-third of the island has been under the occupation of neighbouring Turkey. Greek Cypriot politicians whine and indulge in ...
Our View: Rule of law must trump populism
The Transparency Commissioner, Haris Poyiadjis, who heads the anti-corruption authority, told the House institutions committee on Wednesday that an announcement about the ‘black van’ spying case would be issued on ...
Cyprus has won the alignment argument, the harder question is what it buys
There is a version of the last four years that Cypriot officials tell with justified satisfaction. The American arms embargo, in place since 1987, was lifted in 2022. The CYCLOPS training centre, ...
Our View: Security, not status, should decide police protection
Justice and Public Order Minister Costas Fitiris should be congratulated for taking it upon himself to rationalise the issue of security details. The absurd practice of providing former presidents and ...
Our View: Government still at odds over GSI
The biggest doubts about the viability and importance of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) have always been expressed by the Christodoulides government, which is bizarre considering it is a project ...
Our View: German economy must be revived to stop AfD
The election triumph of the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday sent shockwaves across Europe. The party took almost 44 per ...
Climate: “No good outcomes”
“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, ...
Our View: Are parents no longer responsible as child’s problems referred to educational psychologists?
The number of educational psychologists needed for public school students seems to increase every year. The education ministry is currently in dispute with the finance ministry over how many new ...
Cyprus solar power: where the money really goes
The debate over Cyprus’ high electricity prices has increasingly focused on renewable energy producers and, in particular, whether commercial solar parks are earning excessive returns. This is a legitimate question ...
Skipping tough economic choices now will only make them harder later
Last week I wrote about the possibility of a financial crisis in the United States. Given that the three indicators I identified were grounded in fact rather than speculation, I ...
Global economy is increasingly shaped by geopolitics
Traditionally, economics and political science were regarded as distinct disciplines. Economic analysis was grounded primarily in the benefits of free competition and countries’ comparative advantages in determining patterns of trade, ...
The Anabasis of Kilimanjaro: the mountains we all climb
Five days into our climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, shortly after midnight on June 15, 2026, under a sky ablaze with stars and thinning air, Karim Tabet, my fellow climber from Lebanon, our ...
The mirage of leverage: Crans-Montana and the laws of geography
The collapse of the 2017 Crans-Montana conference remains the defining strategic blunder of modern Greek Cypriot statecraft, illustrating the fatal flaw of relying on legalistic paper promises in an era of ...
Cyprus’ inadequate and unsustainable pension reform
The social security “reform”, proposed by the Christodoulides government is inadequate, unfair and unsustainable.
This is mainly because the scope for bringing many vulnerable persons out of the risk of ...
There must be full investigations into Cyprus boat tragedies
There were two tragedies at sea in Cyprus last week. August is a most dangerous month in the sea around Cyprus, known in Greek as kakavgusties when the sea is ...
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