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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 ...

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 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 ...

Failure to learn from economic history condemns the rest of us to its repeat, or worse By Andrew Shouler The world may not yet have reached the critical moment, its ...

By Emine Çolak This question was posed at a panel at the Cyprus Forum on October 2, 2021. The answer has to be: Yes, of course. The event’s overriding theme was ...

By KM Greg Sarkissian The Zoryan Institute recently held discussions on the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China. The discussion focused on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, ...

A defence of Archbishop Elpidophoros, the Greek Orthodox church religious leader in the US By Tasoula Hadjitofi My eyes filled with tears. I was reading the public apology of Archbishop ...

President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who arrives in Cyprus on Wednesday on an official visit, explains the importance of the Polish Solidarity movement’s ‘Appeal to the ...