Opinion Archives - Cyprus Mail

Drive towards renewables has been sidetracked by gas

March 25th, 2019426 We’re nowhere near reaching our renewable energy targets and the reasons for the delay defy common sense By Charles Ellinas A renewables...

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Counting the cost of Brexit

March 25th, 20191326 By Andonis Vassiliades The UK is in a political and socio-economic crisis of its own making In the aftermath of speaker of the British parliament John...

Guest Columnist

Climate does not recognise political positions

March 24th, 20191396 By George Vassiliou CLIMATE change has dominated global headlines in recent years with weather-related tragedies affecting millions of people. As real as...

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The next central bank governor should be a foreigner

March 24th, 20191625 By George Koumoullis WHEN I was doing my GCE A level in economics to get a place at university in the UK, many decades ago, I was reading the book Economics...

Guest Columnist

Cyprus banking on the cusp of great change

March 24th, 20192406 ‘Cost reduction’, digital transformation and banking consolidation are in the works, but managing the message is key By Demetris...

Our View

Our View: More seriousness needed in approach to foreign policy

March 24th, 20191506 THE MUCH-TOUTED tripartite meeting with the ad hoc participation of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not live up to the big expectations created by...

Tales from the Coffeeshop

Coffeeshop: Naughty Turkey’s big incentive to behave

March 24th, 20193256 THE WAY the tripartite summit, with the ad hoc participation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was reported by some you would have thought the Yanks were on...

Opinion

A general election is the obvious way out for Britain

March 24th, 20192415 By Alper Ali Riza THE penny has finally dropped in the EU that you cannot disrespect the constitutional arrangements of member states and get away with it...

Guest Columnist

The travesty of ‘refugee-ism’ glorifies victimhood

March 24th, 20191573 By Alan Waring The Cyprus Mail ‘Our View’ opinion article (March 17, 2019) on the plight of Greek Cypriot refugees from the 1974 invasion, together with...

Our View

Our View: Education ministry must end knee-jerk reactions prompted by others

March 23rd, 20191029 DECISIONS being taken by the education ministry for public schools are increasingly the product of knee-jerk reactions rather than studies and research. This...

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The cardinal error committed by the Greek Cypriots

March 23rd, 20195765 LAST Monday, I attended the presentation of the newly published book written by Ioannis N. Gregoriades, under the title “Sisyphus going East”. The...

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World’s Leading Demagogue

March 23rd, 20191546 YOU can keep your Orban, your Netanyahu, your pathetic Boris Johnson. As for Donald Trump, he’s really an icon of democracy, just slightly shop-soiled. The...

Our View

Our View: High rents an obstacle to tackling labour shortage in hotel industry

March 22nd, 20192102 HOTELS, restaurants and bars are once again finding it difficult to find workers. They are demanding that the government relax regulations preventing the...

Our View

Our View: No reward for Solidarity’s shabby behaviour

March 21st, 20191272 IT IS almost three years since the last parliamentary elections and the dispute over the 56th seat has still to be resolved. On Tuesday the full bench of the...

Our View

Our View: Pompeo meeting reflects government’s lack of perspective

March 20th, 20191832 When it comes to the government’s dealings with powerful countries there is one element usually missing – a sense of perspective. As a result, hype...

Our View

Our View: Taking on CyBC unions will be no easy task

March 19th, 20191161 EVERY few years, the CyBC becomes an issue of public debate. The latest debate was sparked by the decision of Diko and Disy to vote against the corporation’s...

Opinion

Brexit backstop: arrogance is as breath-taking as the ignorance

March 17th, 20192446 By Gwynne Dyer The other Europeans are not laughing at the English for the most part. They are looking at them with pity and scorn. But also with a great...

Opinion

Giving in to the virtue-signalling mob leads to nothing good for a free society

March 17th, 20191780 It was so disgusting and disturbing to watch everyone pile on Disy municipal councillor Georgios Lakkotrypis for his post on social media where he described...

Guest Columnist

Ethiopia crash may test Boeing's success in defeating US lawsuits

March 17th, 20191511 By Tom Hals, Brendan Pierson and Tina Bellon The crash of Boeing Co's 737 Max 8 passenger jet in Ethiopia raises the chances that families of the 157...

Opinion

The misinformation of cowardly online commentators

March 17th, 20191746 Half-truths, cherry-picking and mud-throwing By Christos P Panayiotides I recently found myself at the receiving end of a mud-smearing campaign from a...

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