Analysis

By Theodoros Zachariadis, professor at the Cyprus Institute Imagine that meat prices rise by 30 per cent, whether due to foot-and-mouth disease or energy costs. This creates serious inflationary pressures throughout ...

On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Renee Good multiple times as she sat in her SUV in Minneapolis. One week earlier, an off-duty ICE agent killed Keith ...

War between Israel and Hezbollah is pushing Lebanon’s fragile state and society towards breaking point, straining sectarian and political faultlines as Shi’ite Muslims are displaced and enmity deepens ...

The escalating conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has transcended a localised military intervention to become a systemic disruption of the global order. International observers now reach a ...

The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for energy shipping face a stark reality: a similar effort in the Red Sea that started ...

In the wake of the March 2, 2026, drone strike on the British Sovereign Base at Akrotiri, President Nikos Christodoulides has moved to reorient the Republic of Cyprus’s grand strategy. His ...

As the conflict unfolds, it is becoming clearer that war with Iran will not be a quick, surgical operation as initially expected. Instead, it signifies a deeper struggle and a ...

The Mexican military raid that killed the country’s most wanted cartel leader on Sunday was President Claudia Sheinbaum’s biggest bet yet, doubling down on her historic offensive against ...

By Kyriacos Lambrias and Nektarios Michail In what follows, we offer our view on what the main economic challenges in the world economy are in the coming year. It is ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reflected a feeling of profound change among European leaders at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference when she said: “Some lines have been ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the United States was once hailed as an inspired move to deploy a master of the “...

The United States and Russia could embark on an unrestrained nuclear arms race for the first time since the Cold War, unless they reach an eleventh-hour deal before their last ...

By Stelios Colocassides What began as a business tool, then an everyday convenience, is now starting to resemble something far more unsettling: a force that may soon decide outcomes that ...

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets his Danish and Greenlandic counterparts this week, Denmark will be defending a territory that has been moving steadily away from it ...

Nicolás Maduro’s first appearance in a U.S. courtroom offered a glimpse of the legal battle ahead over rarely tested questions — chief among them whether he can claim ...

In the final fractious hours of the U.N. climate summit in Brazil, when a deal to advance the world’s fight against global warming was slipping out of reach, ...

President Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed peacemaker who has campaigned for a Nobel Prize, finally got a camera-ready diplomatic victory on Monday as world leaders flew to Egypt for the signing ...

The single aim of the competitive electricity market (CEM) must be to bring about substantial reductions in Cyprus’ very high electricity prices. Anything else is of secondary importance and certainly ...

Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

By Tomaz Lovsin The European Union is at a crossroads in its digital policy. A draft regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (CSA) — often called “Chat Control” — would ...

In the end, Europe found it lacked the leverage to pull Donald Trump’s America into a trade pact on its terms and so has signed up to a deal ...

The US and Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear sites creates a conundrum for UN inspectors in Iran: how can you tell if enriched uranium stocks, some of them near weapons ...

In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva. ...

By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi Israel has gutted Iran’s nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes that leave a weakened Tehran with few options to retaliate, including an all-out ...