Opinion

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the tariffs that would be imposed on the United States’ trading partners, in what he described as ‘liberation day’ for America. Many in the ...

The latest round of U.S. trade tariffs unveiled on Wednesday will sap yet more vigour from a world economy barely recovered from the post-pandemic inflation surge, weighed down by ...

The head of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas joined forces with his Pasydy counterpart Stratis Mattheou to have a dig at the IMF, which had warned against any “fiscal loosening.” ...

Police bowed to political pressure and announced on Monday a month’s extension to the deadline for the payment of traffic camera fines. The payment period for pending traffic fines ...

By Yiannis Misirlis The Cyprus real estate sector is in a dynamic phase of growth. Despite significant challenges, the industry continues to demonstrate resilience and adaptability, contributing approximately 15 per cent ...

During the four years that President Donald Trump was out of the White House, he spent them not only in planning his return, and the retribution he would extract from ...

Maybe it was the fact that we were coming up on the tenth anniversary of the treaty Donald Trump destroyed that prompted him to start issuing threats to Iran again. ...

I have been writing many articles which look into the darker side of our humanity, and challenging relevant authorities to do better. As spring blossoms with its natural energy and ...

Turkey is in turmoil after Istanbul mayor and candidate for president Ekrem Imamoglu was charged with offences of bribery and corruption, which sparked sustained protests against the rule of President ...

KYPROULLA will not contribute any troops to a European task force that would maintain the peace in Ukraine in the very unlikely event that Russia agreed to a ceasefire deal, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spends an awful lot of his time abroad, attending councils, conferences, exhibitions. Last week he was in Geneva, before flying to Brussels for a European Council, while ...

By Andreas Theophanous On March 17-18, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres chaired another five-party conference in Geneva on the Cyprus problem. President Nicos Christodoulides, the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, ...

European leaders made the right decision in Paris on Thursday. More than two dozen heads of state and government unanimously agreed that sanctions on Moscow should remain until “peace has ...

“Shock at education committee: even rumours about human trafficking between students,” read a click-bait headline on a news website on Thursday. A newspaper was even clearer with the headline about ...

A bill to unfreeze 977 positions in the civil service this year was discussed at the House finance committee on Monday. Several thousand positions had been frozen during the economic crisis ...

My early impressions of Cypriots were formed by friends introduced to me by my late husband, Andreas, a very good man, therefore the friends he chose were good people and ...

US President Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking has given Europe an unexpected spur to action, but any sense of “Europhoria” about the region’s chances of turning this moment into ...

What happened on the Nicosia-Limassol highway on Sunday was beyond belief. Some 2,000 members of the Movement of United Cypriot Hunters (Kekk) blocked the Limassol-Nicosia highway in both directions for a ...

Given its importance to Cypriot consumers and industry, I am returning back to the burning subject of electricity prices. These must come significantly down now and not just wait for ...

Most assessments of the developments and prospects of the EU are unfortunately negative. The EU is increasingly criticised for its inflexible policy decision making framework, excessive bureaucracy, inability to play ...

Swimming pools use relatively little water as they simply circulate the water that’s already there, but putting a cover on pools to stop evaporation in mid-summer would help. Irrigation ...

Recently travelled from Larnaca airport. The new regulations on water bottles are 60 cents for a 500ml bottle. When we got there all bottles were now 750ml for €1.90 and hiding at ...

I saw the ‘diplomats’ all descending on Geneva, including the past president – who really didn’t want a solution when he was president. All having a good time at taxpayers’ ...

It would be an exaggeration to claim that US President Donald Trump’s two-hour telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday was a failure, but by now I ...