Our View: Economics 101 – tax cuts fuel not reduce inflation
Good to hear someone in a position of authority standing up for economic reason and pointing out what should have been obvious to everyone with the most basic understanding of ...
Could awareness of responsible AI development be driving the stock market’s gains?
By Stephania Constantinou
Early this month, the S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent to a new high, taking its gain for the year to more than 14 percent. The main reason is ...
Moment of maximum danger may come soon
A long time ago I was interviewing a professor at the University of Michigan (whose name I cannot recall) on various topics of no great interest. I was about to ...
Our View: Yet another Trump decision that is difficult to understand
The energy ceasefire President Donald Trump claimed to have brokered between Russia and Ukraine does not seem to apply to Russia. On Monday, a day after the American president’s ...
Columnist’s argument for Turkish Cypriot mayor is ‘legally untenable’
By Paris Spanos
Alper Ali Riza’s line of argument in his article ‘Turkish Cypriots of Nicosia have constitutional right to municipality’ (Cyprus Mail, October 4) is superficial and lacks a ...
Our View: President needs to explain decision for Israel’s Maccabi to use Limassol stadium
Although there has been some public criticism of the government’s decision to allow the Israeli basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv to use the Spyros Kyprianou stadium in Limassol as ...
From kidneys to title deeds: a way through the Cyprus property problem
By Engin Kara
For 50 years, property has sat at the centre of every negotiation on Cyprus, and every time it has been deferred to a “comprehensive settlement”. In a recent ...
Why is Cyprus taking such a risk for Maccabi Tel Aviv?
There is something deeply troubling about the decision to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv to make Cyprus its home for its EuroLeague basketball matches this season.
There is nothing inherently wrong ...
Rubio in Athens: Greece’s strategic value and the challenge for Cyprus
US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism.
It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit.
It ...
Cyprus’ classic case of strategic entrapment
In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival.
Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor diplomatic choreography can overturn the distribution ...
Building resilience in the digital age: the strategic value of a digital euro for Cyprus and Europe
By Stelios Georgakis, Head, Directorate General Payments, Central Bank of Cyprus
Cyprus has long stood at the crossroads of continents, cultures and trade routes. Throughout its history, our island has ...
How should Cyprus sentence a father over his son’s death?
The trial of the British father who pleaded guilty of causing the death of his three-year-old boy who fell from a hotel window in Paphos last July will learn his ...
Tales from the coffeeshop: A week of suicide bomber tactics in politics
YOU HAVE to admire Averof Neophytou’s suicide bomber tactics with which he cleared the way for his presidential candidacy.
It has not been secured yet, as he will stand ...
Our View: Much-touted pension reform just an election ploy
The sloppy amateurishness with which the government has approached the much-trumpeted reform of the pension system is astounding. The overall impression is that Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas does not have ...
Cyprus public transport should make car ownership a choice
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
I don’t want to own a car, for many reasons. In most European cities, people can choose whether they want one. Cyprus should enhance its public ...
Man City and playing by the rules
The world of football marvelled at Manchester City’s extraordinary decade.
It was not only the gathering of numerous trophies. It was the level of football they played that made ...
Our View: Fighting organised crime requires modern tools
Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...
Our View: Demetriou chooses unity over the presidency
In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...
Our View: Option for Limassol theatre all part of socialist thinking
The Limassol municipality has asked that it is given the ownership of the iconic Rialto theatre by the state. Although the finance ministry has agreed to the transfer, the council ...
Our View: Time for Disy to make a stand, about anything
Speaking about his intention to join the contest for the Disy presidential candidacy on Omega TV, former health minister Giorgos Pamborides said his plan was to appeal to voters beyond ...
Spat of the week
“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president ...
Our View: Govt must show no mercy on underperforming teachers
World Teachers Day was marked on Monday just days ahead of planned industrial action by teachers in Cyprus and one day before the unions are to meet Education Minister Athena ...
Cyprus has repaired its finances – now it must invest in its future
Economic success creates a new question for Cyprus. Having repaired the state’s balance sheet, is the island using its financial strength sufficiently to repair structural weaknesses in its economy?
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An ‘anti-election’ manifesto on Cyprus’ Independence Day
States in the international system operate in an environment of unyielding anarchy. No supreme arbiter protects a sovereign state when an existential crisis arrives. When a small state sits directly ...
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