Covid-19 therapeutics: Stepping up EU defences
By Stella Kyriakides Vaccination is picking up the pace across the EU with the numbers increasing by the day. Last week we saw the largest...
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Three Seas Region: shared history, shared future
The countries in the Three Seas Region were hit less by Covid-19 pandemic and are forecast to recover faster than the rest of the EU...
The boundaries of fiscal policy
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Until recent years, international financial organisations supported the view that narrowly defined fiscal discipline was an absolute prerequisite for...
Ukraine marks 35 years since Chernobyl
By Ruslan Nimchynskyi On April 26, Ukraine marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the catastrophic nuclear accident which occurred at the Chernobyl...
Earth Day: Climate change calls for all of us to act now
By Judith Garber On my very first walk around Nicosia two years ago, I passed a group of young Cypriots creating posters calling on their...
Economic policy and defence spending
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For most countries defence spending constitutes a percentage of their GDP which is not negligible. As a case...
LNG plant is Cyprus’ best energy option
The Cyprus LNG plant and the East Med pipeline under the spectre of the Turkish ‘blue homeland’ in the East Med’s energy game By Panayiotis...
The EU coming together to beat the crisis
The time to make a difference is now By Elisa Fereira They say that greatness is forged in crisis. If so, today the forge is...
EU taxonomy is a tool for climate transition
But it comes with both risk and opportunities for business By Antigoni Pafitis In the past few years there has been a great deal of...
Erdogan insulted the EU long before ‘SofaGate’
By Faisal J. Abbas There has been widespread uproar at what was seen as misogynistic and insulting treatment meted out by Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
The road to totalitarian technocracy
By Andrew Shouler There’s something pretty rum about the events of the past year, rendering it well beyond a global health story. Besides its impact...
A loose confederation is not the solution
By Les Manison In attempting to find mutually agreed arrangements on the Cyprus problem at the forthcoming meeting chaired by the United Nations many issues...
Changes must be made to operation of vaccine portal
By George Georgiou Most will have heard about the crashing of the vaccine portal soon after it opened on Wednesday for those over 61. First...
How far can ministers be taken to task?
A look at the possible liability of ministers for wrongful acts By Achilleas Demetriades My effort today relates to examining the obscure point of possible...
Covid-19’s newest symptom in Turkey: ‘Kitchen Inflation’
You know things are serious when supermarkets start locking away baby formula. Over the past year, 28,000 people in Turkey might have died of Covid-19....
What the hellim PDO means for Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots know only too well the fate of their hellim/halloumi. They fear it will join a long list of other products the government of...
Working on the frontline of poverty alleviation
China’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Liu Yantao, talks about the policy of poverty alleviation in China which he took part in Chinese President Xi Jinping, in...
The air we breathe is killing us
From car emissions to polluting factories, the state is failing its people By Charalampos Theopemptou People often ask me which is the biggest environmental problem...
No more delays. We must get tough on child abuse
Dealing with it requires the mobilisation of many civil society groups, government departments and tougher penalties Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras More and more people...
Fresh focus is needed on the role of women’s unpaid work
By Sophia Papastavrou The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has shown that by strengthening women’s meaningful participation in peace talks, transforming decision-making power, and...