Time for new initiatives in growing East Med energy crisis
The risk of an accident leading to a hot incident is increasing By Charles Ellinas Despite 2020 starting with some positive developments, the East Med...
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The cult of self-congratulatory business awards
By Nicholas Karides Last month the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm bestowed its international award, the Nobel Prize, on economists, physicists and chemists...
Napa rape claim case highlights bias against women
By Cleopatra Kitti There can’t be many women in Cyprus who don’t feel a deep sense of unease about the case of the British teenager...
Ghosn caught in non-prisoner dilemma
By Edward Hadas “No man can lay down his right to save himself from death, wounds, and imprisonment”. It is highly doubtful that Carlos Ghosn...
Where does Gulf crisis go after limited Iran strikes?
By Peter Apps Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani would have been devastated to learn his surviving colleagues at the top of Iran’s government considered the...
Soleimani strike will be felt well beyond Middle East
By Peter Apps In killing Iran’s Major-General Qassem Soleimani in an air strike near Baghdad’s international airport, Donald Trump has taken a geostrategic risk it is almost...
Let us exploit the potential of peace
By Marios Eliades It has already been announced that the leaders of Israel, Cyprus and Greece will meet in Athens on Thursday to sign a...
We need a peace offensive for Turkey now
By Marios Eliades It is now common knowledge that Turkey is actively manifesting unprecedented aggression not only against Greece and Cyprus, but also against other...
The weakness behind Moscow’s military might
By Peter Apps It’s been a mixed month for Russia and its military. In Syria, they took control of the former Islamic State capital Raqqa,...
We should have noticed the signs of Erdogan’s empire building
By Prometheus It is with awe, concern and trepidation that we are following the events surrounding the signing of the agreement between the Islamist government...
A system that serves the few at the cost of impairing the real economy
By Savvakis C Savvides The political scientist Joseph Schumpeter put forward the concept of ‘creative destruction’ which has become core in neoclassical economic thinking. It...
XR: life on Earth in crisis
By Richard Dickenson Yet another new organisation inaugurated with the very best possible intentions for the benefit of one and all, the nation, the environment...
The need for equity investment to boost the Cyprus economy
By George Theocharides Since the crisis of 2013, the economy of Cyprus has shown impressive resilience and improvement. From negative growth rates, we now have...
Is it simply a single van spying in Cyprus?
By Prometheus Since the inception of our reluctant if not stillborn republic, the island’s politics have been dominated by endless strings of scandals centered on...
Economic growth is benefiting too few of us
Better budgetary policies would allow all of us to reap the rewards of economic growth By Les Manison In terms of exhibiting relatively rapid growth...
The multiple route to political equality
By Neophytos Loizides The UN secretary-general’s statement in Berlin on Monday confirmed that there is no alternative to political equality in a reunited Cyprus. Although...
Hong Kong tips Beijing’s balance quandary
By Edward Hadas It may all make sense to Xi Jinping. For the Chinese leader, dissent, as seen in the Hong Kong protests, leads to...
Free healthcare comes at a price
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Looks good, doesn’t it? A free health service, but how much is really free or are some areas robbing Peter to...
Undoing rail closures won’t cure Britain’s ills
By John Kemp The Reshaping of British Railways, published in 1963, made its principal author, Dr Richard Beeching, the most hated civil servant in Britain....
Netanyahu personifies the corrupting force of power
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir The long-anticipated indictment of Prime Minister Netanyahu has finally come to pass. For three years, Netanyahu spared no effort to scuttle three...
