Opinion

FULL stadiums, unpredictable games, major upsets and brilliant individual plays. The whole world, and Europe in particular, was eagerly-anticipating the delayed Euro 2020 tournament. The world has changed since the Russia 2018 ...

By Richard Dickenson It’s the silly season which is well known to hacks as the time of year when nothing happens. So all those empty pages get filled up ...

By Sam Beever, Deirdre Ní Fhallúin, Elke Merks-Schaapveld and Anders Hagelberg This was the very clear message sent by the UN Security Council in January this year, and one ...

The outgoing health minister said at the weekend the government had reached a crossroads on vaccination although it has more or less met the target of 65 per cent having had ...

Last summer with the lull in the pandemic, and no movement on the Cyprus issue, Varosha became the main talking point for months with visits and tours organised by the ...

Dr Natalie Alkiviadou In this year’s parliamentary elections ruling Disy secured a percentage of 27.77 per cent of the vote, Akel 22.34 per cent, Diko 11.29 per cent and Elam 6.78 per cent, ...

Every legislative act has four related but distinct dimensions Despite the visible risk of boring you, I beg you to allow me to revert on the subject of my last ...

By Stephania Constantinou Around the world, only a handful of countries use another nation’s anthem as their own. In Cyprus, the island’s most significant form of political commemoration, ...

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides It is generally acknowledged that the ultimate objective of governments should be to improve the welfare of their citizens. Traditionally, the GDP per capita, ...

The prophets of doom and the Project Fear salesmen, who had mercifully disappeared from view for about a month, made a comeback in the last week, doing their best to ...

News that the UK government decided to keep Cyprus on its amber list dashed the hopes of the tourism industry for a boost to business in July. Cyprus’ low positivity ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis central banks substantially lowered interest rates to support the recovery of their economies. In fact, the ECB by September 2015 had reduced its ...

President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...

Health minister, Constantinos Ioannou may be on his way out, but he has not given up his crusade to have the whole population of Cyprus vaccinated. On a visit to ...

As was widely expected, the latest visit by the UN secretary-general’s envoy, Jane Holl Lute, came to nothing. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, did not budge from his ...

One thing that has become obvious after eight years of the Anastasiades administration is that the president does not like changing his ministers or, as some like to say, freshening ...

At the recent G7 summit, US president Joe Biden promised to distribute 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines free to the poorer countries by the middle of next year. That’s ...

Systemic corruption poisons values, erodes rule of law, distorts the market, discourages investment and productivity and reduces standard of living Kleptocracy is a form of government in which the leaders, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, the macroeconomic management of sovereign economies has become more complex due to a number of factors, including the globalisation of trade ...

There are simply too many diverging aims and electoral and legislative weaknesses for it to work There are many who consistently argue that a “government of national unity” will help ...

One of the biggest achievements of the unions of the public sector, over the years, has been the championing of the mediocre, responsibility-fearing and unproductive workers. They have done this ...

YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prez Nik after the week he has just had. The number of public rejections he suffered would have forced lesser men to go into hiding ...