Guest Columnist

By Kyriaki Stinga and Dorina Mastora Most professionals would point to effective controls, robust governance, adequate resources, regulatory expertise or technological sophistication. All of these are important. They also share ...

A lot has been written about the parliamentary election that took place here in Cyprus three weeks ago. I will not attempt to add to that as I have nothing ...

From next month, a category of ordinary, lawful payment between two consenting adults becomes illegal to settle in cash in Cyprus. That category is rent. The change is arriving with ...

By Dimitris Xenofontos In his recent podcast appearance with Marinos Nomikos, Nicos Anastasiades repeated his familiar narrative: Turkey, he argued, was not ready to abolish the unilateral right of intervention ...

The global economy is facing a serious, but not unprecedented, energy crisis. The transportation of oil and natural gas has been negatively affected, mainly due to the closure of the ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar What I’ve come to understand, now that I live in Paphos, is that Cyprus functions as a condensed mirror of the modern world. What many outsiders ...

By Yiannakis Kaponi A constituent telephones a newly elected MP in Nicosia. There have been repeated serious road accidents on a dangerous stretch of road in their area. Residents demand ...

By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti In a world where social media influencers have become demigods and authority figures for millions of consumers, it seems that questions of legal accountability ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, after the last Christodoulides-Erhurman meeting on May 8, appears to be placing the new initiative on the Cyprus problem after the parliamentary elections and ...

By Gavin Jones Demagogues have a tendency to appear, thrive and seduce the public with their populist messages which tend to focus at most on two or three major topics. ...

By Maria Demertzis Mark Carney’s call for an age of middle powers in the World Economic Forum this year has left European capitals in an awkward place. For Canada, ...

By Konstantia Achilleos Sun, sea and sand has dominated Cyprus’ tourism identity for decades, but although it has had a titanic impact on the economy, it remains incomplete. It overshadows ...

On February 11 this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House with one objective: to persuade President Trump to join Israel in a major military operation against Iran. ...

In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed the results in two European elections that will change the way the EU will be moving forward. In Hungary, the 16-year ...

The tragedy of missing persons in Cyprus is one of the island’s deepest and most enduring wounds. It is also one of the few areas where meaningful bicommunal cooperation ...

By Andreas Shialaros On Thursday, President Nikos Christodoulides announced that Cyprus will ban social media for children under 15, joining Greece, and potentially Turkey, in a wave of similar measures sweeping ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos Nikos Christodoulides recently stated that “the EU has the tools to demonstrate the benefits of a solution to Turkey, which holds the key to solving the Cyprus ...

By Sébastien Laye Cyprus holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union at a moment when Brussels’ much-celebrated openness is facing a test it has so far ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos In Cyprus, we have learned to view the Cyprus problem through the lens of history, justice and international law. We speak of invasion, occupation and violations of ...

It begins as a typical morning. Sunlight warms the kitchen table while you finish your breakfast with a cup of coffee in your hand and look at the local newspaper. ...

By Ramona Livera, Kyveli Antoniou and Anastasios Kostekoglou At critical stages of growth, businesses look outward for capital, to scale operations, enter new markets, strengthen infrastructure or remain competitive. In ...

An open letter to President Nikos Christodoulides from fothkia.com We are also addressing the media because we believe that prevention, accountability and the protection of human life are not ...

By Chrysovalantis Andreou For the past week or so there has been a tense atmosphere both within Cypriot government circles and internationally regarding developments in the Middle East. At the ...

By Maria Angela Holguin As I have stated publicly on several occasions, changing the status quo for the benefit of all requires that the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders ...