The Governing Trio
By Achilleas Demetriades Recent events have raised concerns as to the government’s ability to handle the serious issues the country is facing. Efforts to cover...
Guest Columnist
Central bank independence: it’s more than just about interest rates
By George M. Georgiou Debates about central bank independence have traditionally focused on monetary policy, specifically the setting of interest rates. A central bank, it...
We must deliver what we agreed in Glasgow
COP26 president on what was achieved and what still needs to be done By Alok Sharma November last year was a pivotal moment for the...
2022: a year of difficulty but also of hope
By Achilleas Demetriades At the end of every year each one of us reflects on the year ahead and sets out our goals regarding what...
Democratic political systems must run under the rule of law
The Embassy of China in Cyprus replies to report on Hong Kong elections The Embassy of China in Cyprus takes note that the Cyprus...
Governance and economic policy
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The experience with the pandemic has brought to the surface the age-old issue of the role of the central...
Here’s why we need climate protests: even if some think they’re annoying
By Sara Vestergren, Samuel Finnerty, and Yasemin Gülsüm Acar The last few years have seen a surge in climate protests. From Turkey and Germany to the...
Stop the rot: environment lessons Cyprus has to learn
This month, guest columnist Martin Harper, regional director for BirdLife Europe and Central Asia, writes about key nature conservation challenges in Cyprus after his recent...
‘Tis the season for behavioural economics
By Melina Moleskis What is behavioural economics in a nutshell? Behavioural economics is about observing and understanding human decisions up close without prior assumptions. Its...
‘Twas the night before Christmas’ helped make the modern Santa
Melissa Chim, General Theological Seminary The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a...
EU emissions trading system speculation is political greenwashing
by Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland Another summit of the European Council is being held today, December 16. This time there will be an...
Cyprus Economic Society: The German elections and what it means for Europe
This article summarises the discussion Forum organised by the Cyprus Economic Society on 14 October 2021 on the German Elections and What it Means for...
Reducing food waste: cook less and use leftovers
By Charalampos Theopemtou The first time I ever had to cook to eat was when I first arrived in London to study and I was...
Time to adopt ‘rules of engagement’ for demos
By Charalampos Theopemptou Just a few months into my first year at university, the UK government decided to increase the fees for international students...
Cyprus’ broken balance sheets and the depletion of equity
By Savvakis C. Savvides More often than not debt is presented as the evil of our times. To a large extent this is true but...
Approach on Turkey is leading nowhere
Cyprus must align itself with European interests By Achilleas Demetriades The European Council will convene on December 16 to discuss once more the possibility of...
Inflation ideology: camp permanent or camp temporary?
By Maria Demertzis The discovery of the latest Omicron variant of COVID-19 sent stock markets into a freefall on Black Friday. However, markets recovered on...
Joint action to defend and promote democracy
By Judith Garber Across the globe, democracy and human rights are increasingly under siege. Far from being an issue isolated to the “developing” world, democracies...
Cyprus’ desperately needs an independent Anti-Corruption Authority
By Achilleas Demetriades The House of Representatives is set to vote on December 9 on a bill – which has been pending for years –...
Mining the Meta-ecology of a degraded planet Earth
The young are navigating conflicting visions of a utopian techno-digital future and a dystopia in which the earth’s landscape has been degraded beyond repair By...
