Gloomy outlook leading Turkish Cypriots to leave the island
A crashing economy is leading to a growing sense of hopelessness with many not being able to see a way out reports Esra Aygin
“From now on, the struggle for ...
Russia’s history of imperialism continues
By Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland
The outbreak of the Second World War, which began on September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the Nazi Third Reich, ...
Has the UK benefited from Brexit?
By St. John Coombes
Much of the reason for Brexit was for the UK to ‘take back control’ of borders, money and laws. The reason, so the argument went, was ...
China will not tolerate hollowing of the One-China Principle
Ambassador Liu Yantao explains how China’s complete reunification will be fulfilled
Recently, in disregard of China’s stern warnings, some forces hostile to China’s development made provocative visits ...
Brand audit clean-up: holding companies accountable
By combining people power with scientific data evidence, brand audits are a great tool for pressuring companies over their role in plastic pollution
By Victoras Pallikaras
Brand audit is a ...
Central banks up the odds in the fight against inflation
By Ioannis Tirkides
In a previous article, we published in these pages, titled, ‘A new era of monetary policy is just beginning’, we discussed the changing monetary landscape in the ...
Gorbachev died shocked and bewildered by Ukraine conflict – interpreter
By Andrew Osborn
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by ...
Wizz Air, are you a Robot?
An unbelievably frustrating experience at Larnaca airport with Wizz Air
By Katerina Nicolaou
What is best? A cold Alexa goddess or a displaced Cypriot girl consumed by the emotion that ...
Gorbachev’s tragedy – a flawed reformer on an impossible mission
Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the ...
Ukraine’s six months of resistance, resilience and resolve
By Judith Garber
August 24, 2022 marked the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.
Sadly, the day also marks six months since the Russian government launched its unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine – ...
Bank of Cyprus largely saved the economy after 1974
By Evdokimos Xenophontos
In 1974 foreign banks were totally unwilling to participate in financing the Cyprus economy. It was up to the banking authorities, the finance ministry and the Bank of ...
Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for Renaissance
By DAVID BURTON
If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, Renaissance.
Rolling Stone has described her as ...
Who, in the end, will undertake the criminal investigation?
By Achilleas Demetriades
An initial reading of Auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides, findings reveals the corrupt system relating to the Cyprus Investment Programme (CIP). I would like to congratulate the auditor-general on ...
No Independence Day celebrations but we remain defiant
By Ruslan Nimchynskyi
On August 24, 2022 Ukrainians celebrate Independence Day, marking the 31st anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence.
It was our biggest national holiday, celebrated by millions of ...
New European Innovation Agenda to scale up EU
By Mariya Gabriel
Innovation is critical to navigate the twin green and digital transitions and to secure the EU’s strategic autonomy. The New European Innovation Agenda, adopted by the ...
Salman Rushdie attack: the legacy of the decades-old fatwa
By Parveen Akhtar
In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of ...
The Greek economy: growth may surprise us
By Theodoros Pelagidis
In September 2021 the undersigned, diagnosed that inflation will not transitory, that it will be more persistent, higher and longer lasting, showing evidence of entrenchment since then. In ...
Concern over increase in crime in the north
High numbers of foreign students being forced into crime part of the problem
By Esra Aygin
There has been a drastic increase in crimes in the northern part of Cyprus ...
Inflation, wages and monetary policy
By Ioannis Tirkides
Inflation has been ramping up for about a year now and has reached levels last seen more than forty years ago, during the stagflation of the 1970s ...
UK interest rate rise on the back of higher inflation
Biggest rate increase for 27 years
By St John Coombes
This week the Bank of England increased interest rates by 0.5 per cent, taking interest rates to 1.75 per cent. This is the ...
One and done? Some Democrats say Biden should not seek second term
By Richard Cowan
A few Democrats in the US Congress have begun to voice what many have mulled privately: whether President Joe Biden, the oldest person to ever occupy the ...
Afghanistan: assassination of al-Qaida chief reveals tensions at the top of the Taliban
By Michele Groppi
The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were ...
Cyprus beaches at high risk from plastic pollution
As one of the most populated in the Mediterranean, the island already suffers from the consequences of marine pollution
By Anastasis Karonias
Pollution from marine litter is among the most ...
Revising history textbooks is not rewriting history
By Dr Panayiotis Mavros
People are proud of their history as it expresses their national ideals, culture, traditions and aspirations. It has passed down from generation to generation forming the ...