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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 ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow constitutes a crucial event for mankind. Despite the noticeable progress achieved in some areas, ...

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 Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Economic inequality has always attracted attention because of its significant economic and political implications. The most widely accepted method to measure economic inequality is ...

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 ...

By Tasoula Hadjitofi As a resident of The Hague in the Netherlands, I have become familiar with the international courts which have transformed this historic Dutch city into an international ...

Led by the government, politicians in Cyprus accommodate banks using any means at their disposal, to the detriment of the economy and taxpayer By Savvakis C. Savvides In a country ...

We don’t celebrate failure properly. Someone who has failed is someone who has tried, quite unlike those who sit on the sidelines and criticise. Failure has to do with ...

Digitisation gives banks the opportunity to come out of the pandemic even stronger The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated technological transformation for businesses operating in all sectors of the economy. Organisations ...

The US’ experience with supply chain issues goes a long way to explaining what Cyprus should expect and why By Kevin Ketels Walk into any US store these days and ...

By George M Georgiou Although the phrase “lies, damned lies, and statistics” is often attributed to Mark Twain, no one can say with certainty where it originated. What we can ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Following the prolonged period of subdued inflation, discussions are currently focusing on the evolution of prices, given their serious effects on citizens’ everyday lives ...

By George M. Georgiou According to Eurostat’s data browser, Cyprus’ real per capita GDP in 2020 was €23.050, which is about 87 per cent of the EU-27 average. One could be forgiven ...