Building a pathway to peace in Ukraine
By Sonya J Thissen, Harriet E Berg and Vladyslav Lomako
Every morning at 9:00am, Ukraine stops.
Across cities in Ukraine, loudspeakers normally used to warn of incoming Russian air strikes ...
Our View: The soul of Cyprus is lost in the algorithm
This week, AI entered the tourism conversation in a more prominent way than the more generic “use of technology” – never mind that some in the tech industry are warning that ...
Not only the Parthenon has lost its marbles
How would the British public feel if someone stole old Nelson from his plinth, or a lion from Trafalgar Square, placed them in their museum and refused to give them ...
Our View: Less for palaces, more for real needs
Now and again there are news stories that cross a person’s desk that have no connection to each other but reveal an underlying mentality that speaks volumes.
On Sunday, ...
Will Brazilians follow wider Latin American trend?
“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest ...
Our View: Scooters are not the only menace on the roads
The news that a 16-year-old scooter rider died from his injuries at the weekend after being hit by a drunk driver in early August, and police announcing they’d booked 34 ...
Our View: Confusion not clarity on Cyprus problem emerges from New York
Developments on the Cyprus problem over the past week have been less of a “flurry of diplomatic activity” than a “flurry of negativity”.
At home we’ve had the fiasco ...
Downgrading the Turkish Cypriot mayor: a dangerous precedent
By Hakan Karahasan
Just as elsewhere in the world, not a day goes by in Cyprus without far-right populism making its presence felt. The most recent ‘development’ took place during ...
Turkey’s nuclear question: has the Iran war changed the calculus?
The most dangerous lesson of the war with Iran may not be about Iran.
It may be about the bomb.
Would the US and Israel have attacked Iran if Tehran ...
An EU-compatible hybrid electricity market for Cyprus
The lack of visible benefits from Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market has reopened debate over the single buyer model.
Under a conventional single-buyer arrangement, one body purchases electricity through tenders or ...
Giving the world economy a dose of bleach
Recently I have been writing about financial matters and the risks associated with rising interest rates in the US. For sure, the phenomenon is not limited to the United States. ...
Cyprus’ ‘garrison state’ has become a governance crisis
Decades of emergency governance, patronage and institutional barriers have weakened civic participation and left Cyprus facing a deepening crisis of political legitimacy.
The collapse of civic participation and institutional authority ...
The freedom of Cyprus runs through the mountains of Kurdistan?
Dr Thomas James Phillips
Writing in the 19th century literary feuilleton Vremya (Time), the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky chastised the intelligentsia of his day for its revolutionary impatience.
Having been ...
Earl Spencer’s claims about Charles do not add up
His book raises questions about chronology, memory and motive
Earl Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister was published last Tuesday after it was trailed in an interview he gave ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Such ingratitude to Diko and the Papadopoulos clan
I COULD not believe the air of superiority and disdain with which Finance Minister Makis Keravnos responded to the suggestion by poor Ethnarch Junior, his party boss, that he resign ...
Our View: Candidates already eyeing the presidency
Although there are still 16 months to go before the presidential election, it has already started dominating the news.
One news website, that openly supports President Christodoulides has had a story ...
Cyprus has the climate for abundance. So where is the public fruit?
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
The summer continued to be a parade of hidden defects within my home. A man with a detective device had to be summoned to trace the invisible ...
Cyprus’ competitive electricity market one year on
Cyprus’ competitive electricity market completes its first year of operation on October 1. Technically, it is functioning. Electricity is traded through day-ahead, intraday, forward and balancing arrangements broadly aligned with EU’...
Our View: Futile patient system needs to change
There are currently 170 personal doctors in Gesy with 2,500 registered patients each. In other words, 170 personal doctors are looking after a total of 425,000 patients. Is it possible for a single doctor ...
Trump’s diplomatic push exposes limits of US power
From his high-profile address to the UN General Assembly to his high-stakes White House summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump this week was looking to reassert ...
Our View: Old rhetoric offers no way forward
For senior citizens, who have followed politics over the years, President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the UN General Assembly was a trip down memory lane. It was the type of ...
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 ...
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