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By George Christou Comment The increase in bank charges has become a big public issue in the last few weeks, the political parties, consumers associations and interest groups mounting a ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The importance of financial literacy has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years. Many analysts consider financial illiteracy, defined as the lack of skills and ...

Its stability has been assured after weathering two major crises By Maria Demertzis Anniversaries are always a good time to reflect. The euro celebrates the 20th anniversary of its introduction ...

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 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 government and its importance towards ...

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 ...