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The buffer zone in old Nicosia is a perfect opportunity for a high impact Confidence Building Measure By Glafkos Constantinides Confidence Building Measures (CBM) are back in fashion, a kind ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Cyprus’ GDP decline in 2020 was confined to 5 per cent, despite disruptions in international trade, supply chains and air transport. At the same time, unemployment ...

By Daniel Meron Two years into the pandemic, nations across the globe are still struggling to cope with the profound challenges that coronavirus poses. Israel’s ability to deal with ...

If we want a solution, we must be willing to part with old ways, and make women not only a part but an indispensable part of the peace process By ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Developments in the global economy, the effects of the pandemic and the collapse of the “state of corruption”, all call for a new model of economic development ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi Over three decades ago, Ukraine decided to embark on the path of freedom and democracy, a course it has maintained to this day. With the collapse of ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

I rarely ordered home delivery a decade or so ago. It wasn’t that big a part of the culture, beyond the odd once a week souvlaki or the usual ...

By Kenton White, During the tense negotiations over the Ukraine crisis, the idea of “Finlandizing” Ukraine has been suggested as a solution. This idea refers to the way a small ...

By Les Manison Although the date of the presidential elections is still 12 months away there is already excessive attention being focused on the prospects of the many potential candidates. And ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Someone travelling within the European Union may wonder why they have to present a passport/ID when they leave Cyprus to enter an EU member state, whereas ...

By Richard Alston As with every humanities discipline, classics has responded to Black Lives Matter with justifiable introspection. As the study of the ancient world, and particularly that of the ...

By Shashi Kant Yadav The European Commission has decided that power plants burning natural gas can be considered generators of green energy. This means they can count as sustainable investments ...

The 10-year-long Libyan crisis remains a significant international problem as a source of instability and violence in the region. Attempts to find solutions to overcome the situation in Libya have ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The circulation of the euro began 20 years ago, two years after it was formed virtually. This article aims to critically evaluate the evolution of ...

By Savvakis C. Savvides The cannibalisation of natural monopolies Monopoly power is the Achilles heel of a laissez-faire economic system. Adam Smith, for many the father of capitalism, was one ...

By Maria Demertzis Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the next hype in the crypto world. According to Collins Dictionary ‘NFT’ was the 2021 word of the year. But what are they ...

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a call from his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides. Kasoulides said that Cyprus condemns the repeated cross-border attacks carried out by Yemen’...

China’s Ambassador to Cyprus Liu Yantao looks at the year that has just past and looks ahead to the Year of the Tiger On the occasion of the upcoming ...

By Andrestinos Papadopoulos The news that on January 14, Turkey and Armenia had a first round of talks in Moscow with a view to establishing diplomatic relations and opening their borders, ...

In a mad world there are signs that the evident results of wayward economic policy may change the political weather By Andrew Shouler Unintended or not, the consequences of mistaken ...

By Zenon Papaphilippou As the Investment Funds Industry in Cyprus continues to prolifically expand and record growth, the responsibility for high standards of ethical professionalism becomes more pertinent than ever ...

From Crans-Montana to the citizenship-by-investment programme to the deceptions over our gas deposits By Achilleas Demetriades Efforts to solve the Cyprus problem have not been on the agenda of the ...