Opinion

Monday 13 July | 04:24

The illusion of a safe pause and Holguin’s wake-up call

For nearly a decade since Crans-Montana, Greek Cypriot leaders have operated under the illusion of a risk-free status quo. However, UN envoy María Angela Holguin has shattered this complacency, ...

By Ioannis Tirkides

Sunday 12 July | 18:19

The Brexit decade: the gap between expectations and reality

The 2016 referendum on the UK’s departure from the EU is widely considered to be a milestone event. The purpose of this article is to assess its multi-level impact, considering ...

By Andreas Charalambous, Omiros Pissarides

Sunday 12 July | 16:31

A World Cup to remember: war minus the shooting

This week I had planned to write a carefully argued article on economics and the creation of money. After sending it to a couple of friends for comment, however, the ...

By Loukis Skaliotis

Sunday 12 July | 16:30

AI is already inside retail finance

There is a version of the AI-in-finance story that is almost entirely reassuring. Algorithms that make markets more accessible. Platforms that give ordinary investors tools once reserved for institutions. Personalisation ...

By CM Guest Columnist

Sunday 12 July | 10:20

Is there a better way to bring natural gas to Cyprus?

The first two articles in this series concluded that the key question facing Cyprus is no longer whether natural gas is needed, but whether the current Vasiliko LNG import project ...

By Dr Charles Ellinas

Sunday 12 July | 09:00

A discredited Fifa at the beck and call of a petulant Trump

The international football federation (Fifa), the body responsible for the overall conduct and supervision of the 2026 World Cup, brought the beautiful game into disrepute earlier this week. In an unprecedented ...

By Alper Ali Riza

Sunday 12 July | 08:30

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Give her the job! Only Raouna can look after our EU interests

A FEW weeks ago our establishment had mentioned that the Prez would be looking for job to give the deputy minister of European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, whose contract would expire ...

By Patroclos

Sunday 12 July | 08:00

Our View: Linking the Cyprus issue to EU-Turkey relations is just an obstacle

When President Nikos Christodoulides persuaded the European Union to make EU-Turkey relations dependent on progress on the Cyprus problem, this was presented as great achievement. The linking of the two ...

By CM: Our View

Saturday 11 July | 12:30

Why living with less made me love Cyprus more

By Dina-Perla Portnaar Spend enough time with content for people moving to Cyprus and a pattern begins to emerge. Alongside questions about residency permits, where to find the best **** (fill ...

By CM Guest Columnist

Saturday 11 July | 04:20

Our View: Last-minute politics backfires on government

The government has made a big fuss about the defeat of its bill extending the existence of the temporary post of deputy minister of European affairs by another five months. ...

By CM: Our View

Friday 10 July | 04:20

Our View: Akel’s Nato obsession defies logic

Akel general secretary Stefanos Stefanou outlined his party’s main positions on the Cyprus issue at a meeting he had with ambassadors of the EU member-states. His main message was ...

By CM: Our View

Thursday 09 July | 13:21

Bonnie Tyler, singer of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, dies at 75

The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler’s singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to ...

By CyprusMail

Thursday 09 July | 10:00

Cost of infrastructure the dominant LNG factor

For many years, the public debate has assumed that replacing oil with natural gas would automatically produce substantially lower electricity prices. That assumption was reasonable when the Vasilikos LNG import ...

By Dr Charles Ellinas

Thursday 09 July | 04:20

Our View: Hoteliers do not need crisis management for minor setback

The outgoing president of the Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe), Thanos Michaelides, has called for the setting up of a ‘crisis management team’ that would deal with ‘crises’ affecting the tourism industry. ...

By CM: Our View

Wednesday 08 July | 10:03

The true cost of imported LNG – and what it means for electricity prices

For years, public debate in Cyprus has focused almost entirely on the international price of LNG. Every discussion about importing natural gas eventually arrives at the same question: what will ...

By Dr Charles Ellinas

Wednesday 08 July | 04:20

Our View: Further questions circle Mafia State investigation

Speaking to state television on Monday, Leto Cariolou, the lawyer of Makarios Drousiotis, author of Mafia State, slammed the decision to hand over to the council of ministers and police ...

By CM: Our View

Tuesday 07 July | 11:00

Can Vasiliko LNG import project still achieve its original objective?

When Cyprus approved the Vasiliko LNG import project in 2019, the rationale appeared compelling. Importing natural gas promised to reduce electricity prices, lower carbon emissions, improve security of energy supply, diversify ...

By Dr Charles Ellinas

Tuesday 07 July | 04:20

Our View: Is Cyprus doing enough to fight gender-based violence?

Police Chief Themistos Arnaoutis said on Monday that 18,409 cases of violence against women had been reported from 2021 to June 2026. He was speaking at the House human rights committee, which was ...

By CM: Our View

Monday 06 July | 04:20

Cyprus households face affordability crisis

Impressionistic evidence and recent opinion surveys indicate that the affordability crisis is the most pressing concern for Cyprus households. Indeed, many persons state their inability to cope with daily cost-of-living ...

By Les Manison

Sunday 05 July | 17:00

It’s not the weather: it’s a wandering ‘heat dome’

Last week it was Europe’s turn, with a slow-moving ‘heat dome’ that gave almost everybody from the United Kingdom to Poland three consecutive days of record-breaking temperatures. In Germany ...

By Gwynne Dyer

Sunday 05 July | 14:53

Cyprus’ Schengen bid: another brick in the wall of partition and escalation

The narrative that presents Cyprus’ bid to join Schengen as merely ‘fulfilling EU obligations’ is a dangerous bureaucratic fantasy. In international politics, Nicosia’s push to bring government-controlled areas into ...

By Ioannis Tirkides

Sunday 05 July | 12:02

ExxonMobil’s East Med strategy enters a new phase

The Commerciality Declaration for Cyprus’ Glaucus and Pegasus gas discoveries made this week marks an important milestone – not only for the island, but also for ExxonMobil’s wider Eastern Mediterranean ...

By Dr Charles Ellinas

Sunday 05 July | 09:00

We need bases in Cyprus not their sovereignty

The legal status of the British military bases in Cyprus came under the spotlight again this week at a conference organised by the Cyprus Bar Association during which their legal ...

By Alper Ali Riza

Sunday 05 July | 08:30

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Why did govt miss chance to laud Cyprus role?

WHO would have thought it would ever have been possible for the Nik II government to have a big international meeting on the sunshine isle and treat it as a ...

By Patroclos

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The illusion of a safe pause and Holguin’s wake-up call

The Brexit decade: the gap between expectations and reality

A World Cup to remember: war minus the shooting

AI is already inside retail finance

Is there a better way to bring natural gas to Cyprus?

A discredited Fifa at the beck and call of a petulant Trump

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Give her the job! Only Raouna can look after our EU interests

Our View: Linking the Cyprus issue to EU-Turkey relations is just an obstacle

Why living with less made me love Cyprus more

Our View: Last-minute politics backfires on government

Our View: Akel’s Nato obsession defies logic

Bonnie Tyler, singer of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, dies at 75

Cost of infrastructure the dominant LNG factor

Our View: Hoteliers do not need crisis management for minor setback

The true cost of imported LNG – and what it means for electricity prices

Our View: Further questions circle Mafia State investigation

Can Vasiliko LNG import project still achieve its original objective?

Our View: Is Cyprus doing enough to fight gender-based violence?

Cyprus households face affordability crisis

It’s not the weather: it’s a wandering ‘heat dome’

Cyprus’ Schengen bid: another brick in the wall of partition and escalation

ExxonMobil’s East Med strategy enters a new phase

We need bases in Cyprus not their sovereignty

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Why did govt miss chance to laud Cyprus role?