The Greek economy: 2024 review and 2025 outlook
By Miranda Xafa
In an international environment of great turmoil and rapid change over the past year, Greece has stood out as a pole of political and economic stability in ...
The East Med: Cyprus and the geopolitics of Turkish irredentism
By Euripides L. Evriviades
The East Med is increasingly becoming a geopolitical battleground, where competing claims over maritime rights, energy resources and regional influence converge. The Republic of Cyprus (RoC) ...
Investigators seek clues to New Orleans attacker’s path to radicalisation
By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson
As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year’s Day ...
A government budget is much more than balancing the books
By Loukis Skaliotis
Recently the Cyprus Mail was warning that the government budget was pushing the public sector wage bill to unsustainable highs. It was an observation that did not ...
Running or walking: Health benefits and differences
By Charalambos Charalambous
Nowadays, with daily life becoming increasingly demanding, the need for physical exercise has never been more significant. Many of us face a common dilemma: running or walking? ...
Democracy heads into 2025 bloodied but unbowed
By Mark Bendeich
Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025.
In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the ...
Trump’s win and his place in history
By Ioannis Tirkides
History is not just the outcome of personalities, competing platforms, or a matter of chance. It can be all of that at times. But history is cumulative ...
Yes, reindeer actually can have red noses – and other fascinating facts about this Christmas icon
By Julie Old
At this time of year, images of reindeer are everywhere. I’ve had a soft spot for reindeer ever since I was a little girl. Doesn’t ...
Georgia committed to EU membership
By Konstantine Kvachakidze
October 2024 parliamentary elections in Georgia were won by the Georgian Dream, ruling party. The elections were assessed by international observers as held in fair and democratic environment, ...
The precarious promise of the Paris Agreement’s article 6
By Georg Zachmann
Agreement on a global carbon trading framework could complete the global climate architecture, but the risks are significant
The international process for coordinating the fight against global ...
Sir Keir Starmer’s visit: an opportunity for a new strategic partnership
By Euripides L Evriviades
The recent visit of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) marks a critical juncture in the bilateral relations between the ...
Beauty is only skin deep!
By Lysandros Lysandrou
During his first stint as prime minister (1955-1963) of Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907-1998) boasted in parliament that Greece was prospering. The then leader of the official opposition ...
Pokémon GO: a data goldmine for AI training
By Elena Andreou
In 2016, the augmented reality (AR) game Pokémon GO became a global sensation, blending physical exploration with virtual gameplay. Behind the scenes, the game’s immense popularity ...
Europe’s economic problems compounded by lack of strong leadership
France and Germany’s political crises are a setback for efforts to modernise Europe’s struggling economy and are already making it harder for companies to take the investment decisions ...
Better braced for disaster: upgrading EU support mechanisms
By Alicia García-Herrero and Juan Mejino Lopez
The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes.
Devastating flooding in ...
A truth and reconciliation commission in Cyprus would be the best confidence-building measure
By Loukis Skaliotis
Last week I wrote that Plato considered truthfulness a key characteristic of a good leader. Indeed, it is more generally a characteristic of good moral character. Telling ...
The Crown of Thorns returns to Notre Dame after a ‘modern miracle’
By Emily Guerry
A lot of my research involves examining relics from Jesus’s final days. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with some of ...
The ICC: a rigid beacon of justice … when circumstances permit
By Palestinian ambassador Abdallah Attari
The International Criminal Court (ICC), also known as The Hague Tribunal, is considered the “ultimate guardian” of international justice. It was established in 2002 through the ...
The role of sports in our lives: the journey to a better ‘us’
By Charalampos Charalampous
Sports are much more than a way to sweat or count our steps. They are a language our body speaks when it wants to remind us how ...
The dark influence of the media magnates
By Gordon Fletcher
Elon Musk’s regular posts of strong support for president-elect Donald Trump on his social media platform X and his expected role within the new US administration ...
Trump’s policies will have short and long-term economic effects
The election, for the second time, of Donald Trump in the US signals important geopolitical changes and is expected to impact the global economy decisively.
Currently, the US economy presents ...
The International Criminal Court Is Another Casualty of October 7
By Oren Anolik
In 1998, at the time of the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, the head of Israel’s delegation, Judge Eli Nathan, expressed both hope ...
Australian social media ban started with call to act by politican’s wife
By Byron Kaye
Since Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...
Dr Strangelove in Ukraine and the Middle East
By Euripides L Evriviades
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, brilliantly satirised Cold War paranoia and its catastrophic potential.
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