The insights of Harold Evans, a journalist of tenacity
Stephen Grey on the influence of ground-breaking journalist Harold Evans who died this week aged 92 He was the icon that inspired a generation of...
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A landmark opportunity for peace, stability and prosperity
The establishment of full diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain is a watershed moment for our shared region of the Middle...
Coronavirus: Policymakers fly blind on economic health
By Edward Hadas Policymakers want to heal the economic wounds caused by Covid-19. Unfortunately, they are driving without headlights on an unfamiliar road. The confusion starts...
The man with Britain strapped in his backseat
So far unassailable, Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic Cummings offers a blend of high-end populism and selective technocracy By James Deferalist For quite some time...
Voting against your own interests
Nicholas Karides reviews Justin EH Smith’s book Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason How is it possible after centuries of forward...
Coronavirus has exposed the vulnerabilities of Cyprus’ business model
Before the crisis of 2013, the economy was founded on huge piles of risky debt. Little has changed since then By Les Manison Prior to...
Lebanon and the 40 thieves
How corruption and the powerful turned the pearl of the Orient into a failed state By George Eid “Lebanon, pearl of the Orient” is the...
Courage, wisdom and the solidarity of a free people
By François Dubet In 1981, I was in Gdansk Shipyard on many occasions with Alain Tourain and Michel Wieviorka. We were there in December that...
Lebanon hanging by a thread!
In Beirut, the clock is ticking fast towards the deadline set by Emmanuel Macron By George Eid, CM Middle East Correspondent Anyone who follows Lebanese...
Erdogan: an aspiring caliph
By Manish Rai Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working hard on both domestic and international fronts to advance his grand design of reviving an...
Reforms today to embrace tomorrow’s economic model
By Christopher Pissarides and Omiros Pissarides The coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis brought the members of the European Union closer together in unprecedented...
Democracy allows individual voices to be heard
This is an excerpt of the report on ‘Democracy and the changing role of parliament in the 21st century’, submitted to the Fifth World Conference...
Game plan disruption: Turkey and the East Med
By Jonathan Gorvett, CM Regional Correspondent From drill ships to diplomacy, naval exercises to ‘neo-Ottomanism’, Turkey is currently running a campaign across the Eastern Mediterranean...
The miracle on the Vistula: one of the most important anniversaries of today’s free Europe
The Polish-Bolshevik war was a founding moment for modern Poland and a crucial moment for the whole of Europe, even though the awareness of this...
Media pluralism under threat everywhere
By Nicholas Karides Never before have the media, that is the civically useful type that produce independent quality journalism, come under such relentless pressure and...
‘We will defy death, we will make it live’
By Erbay Akansoy I am a citizen of a country In which people were slaughtered solely for their ideological leanings by so-called patriots in the...
Globalisation is down but not out
By Edward Hadas The World Trade Monitor of the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis provides a helpful quantitative measure. Its global index of...
Virus-induced economic challenges not the only ones
With government support for suffering households and struggling businesses needed for months to come, better taxation and government spending policies must accompany any access to...
Shifty paradigms: Black Lives Matter uncovers US’ false assumptions
By Nicholas Karides When the American physicist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn identified the notion of the Paradigm Shift in the early 1960s, he...
Coronavirus: The long journey home
Cypriot citizen Valerie Michaels describes the tortuous process of her repatriation on June 16 from the United States to Cyprus amidst coronavirus precautions For family...
