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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 ...

By Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann For months, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of using illegal migrants as a tool to punish the European Union for imposing sanctions on his ...

by Maria Demertzis Countries hit comparatively hard during the financial crisis, helped also by domestic and European policies, are bouncing back from the pandemic faster than their peers. The European ...

By Nicos Panteli Supervisory authorities constantly remind banks that they need to drastically cut costs Without a doubt the Covid-19 pandemic has left its mark on all aspects of public ...

By Alan Greene, As winter sets in across Europe, COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise, despite the vast roll-out of mass vaccination programmes earlier this year. Austria’s government has ...

By Achilleas Demetriades There is no doubt that prices in general are rising, and we need to have a plan to tackle this price hike, which is soaring. This analysis ...

By Alberto Giubilini, UK health secretary Sajid Javid’s plans for vaccination requirements for frontline NHS workers has reignited the political and ethical debate over COVID passes. The requirement constitutes ...

By Brian Lait Back in September 2019 when Gesy was in its infancy, I wrote an article entitled “Will messy Gesy clean up its act?” Apart from lengthily commenting on the ...

A small, hard-working shop owner fined €4,000 for not checking SafePasses is the sorriest aspect of a very sorry tale Last week, my greengrocer – a small-to-medium-sized business selling fruit and vegetables – ...

By Liu Yantao On July 1, 2021, at a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping solemnly declared that China had realized the first centenary ...

By Liu Yantao, Ambassador of the People’s republic of China in Cyprus Beijing Winter Olympics is just around the corner. On October 18, the flame for the Beijing Winter Olympics ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Public opinion is watching, day in day out, developments linked to the Pandora papers, and some months before that, the Al Jazeera revelations. The Pandora papers issue ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou During the pandemic lockdowns, I got involved with a group of artists trying to secure some money for all the artists that they were prevented from working ...

By Peter Bloom, Facebook’s rebranding as Meta has been seen by many as the company’s latest attempt at corporate crisis control. The social media giant has been publicly ...

By Rebecca Dobson Phillips, A furious backlash in relation to the case of Conservative MP and former government minister Owen Paterson has prompted the UK government to U-turn on plans ...

10+1 thoughts on economic growth and social rights By Achilleas Demetriades Cyprus has, over the years, managed to achieve consecutive cycles of economic growth and development. Nonetheless, the country has also ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The European Parliament, with 578 votes in favour, 28 against and 79 abstentions, adopted a resolution, on October 21, in which it: “…13. Deplores the fact that a number of politicians, including ...

By Aid to the Church in Need Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) helps Christians who are persecuted by violence, oppressed by terror, or are suffering outright discrimination and ...

The government budget for 2022 presented to the House of Representatives on October 7 calls for the overall deficit to be reduced substantially from an estimated 5 per cent of GDP in 2021 to 1.1 ...

By Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland The European Union is in a difficult position today. We are still struggling with successive waves of pandemic infections. We have just started ...