Guest Columnist

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 up the huge responsibilies ...

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 is argued, should be free ...

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 planet, as the countries of ...

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 we would like to achieve ...

The Embassy of China in Cyprus replies to report on Hong Kong elections The Embassy of China in Cyprus takes note that the Cyprus Mail carried a Reuters report entitled “...

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 US, Australia ...

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 visit to our island There ...

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 aim is to make people’...

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 special place among Christmas traditions, ...

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 important debate on energy policy and ...

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 Europe. The speaker was Dr Christian Odendahl, ...

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 living on my own for ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou Just a few months into my first year at university, the UK government decided to increase the fees for international students from something around £250 to a few ...

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 debt is only a symptom ...

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 imposing sanctions on Turkey with regard ...

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 Monday and have since shrugged ...

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 new and old are combatting ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The House of Representatives is set to vote on December 9 on a bill – which has been pending for years – to establish an Independent Anti-Corruption Authority. The UN ...

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 Alexis Karkotis This is ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The economic repercussions of Covid 19 are still being felt. Governments throughout the world have rightly stepped up with huge economic stimulus programmes to address the immediate negative ...

By Ioannis Tirkides COP26, the UN Climate Change summit in Glasgow, ended on 13 November after two weeks of negotiations and a one-day extension, admittedly with only modest results. The conference ...

Ruslan Nimchynskyi writes of the horrors committed by the Soviet Union and their millions of victims Every year on the fourth Saturday of November Ukraine pays tribute to the victims ...

The ancient symbol of humankind’s relationship with nature dates back in Cyprus to at least the 3rd century BC By Martin Clark When I talk about green men, I’...

By Achilleas Demetriades The increase in the flow of irregular migrants across the Green Line and via the sea is a matter of serious concern to public opinion. Many of ...