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By David Milliken More than a million British workers face an uncertain future this week as the UK becomes the world’s first big economy to wind up its Covid-19 ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The citizens of Cyprus are living in uncertainty. They bear witness to a governance that has failed them, and which excels in improvisation, in scandals and in ...

The likelihood of seeing meaningful capital statements published in Cyprus is slim On Monday, September 13, the statements of wealth of members of parliament elected in May were uploaded onto the ...

By Adamos Aspris On October 29, 1941, Winston Churchill was invited to deliver a speech at Harrow School, a school that he attended as a boy. At the time the Americans had ...

By John Ioannou It’s the end of another hard summer again in Cyprus and on every trip to the beach we encounter the familiar water sports operator with their ...

By Andrey Afanasiev The future of finance is digital. The digital transformation of finance becomes a dominant trend, which will bring many fundamental changes. One of the aspects of this ...

Many people are worried about reports of “breakthrough” Covid -19 infections overseas, from places like Israel and the United States. A breakthrough infection is when someone tests positive for Covid ...

The question is whether the Cypriot government or better, the Greek Cypriot community, has the courage to face the truth By Achilleas Demetriades On 15 July I had posed the question “...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The pandemic and temporary “shut down” of economies has led to a worldwide sharp decline in key economic indicators and negatively affected the trade ...

An ancient and natural carbon-capture technology that simply has no downside One of my favourites from among the rich variety of names sometimes flung at nature conservationists, is that of ‘...

By Constantinos Christofides When I was Rector at the University of Cyprus, I was visited by a foreign ambassador just as his posting was drawing to an end in 2018. As ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras According to a new report by Transparency International nearly two-thirds of EU residents believe corruption is a problem in their respective countries. The report, ‘Citizens’ Views ...

By Louisa Borg Haviaras According to a new report by Transparency International nearly two-thirds of EU residents believe corruption is a problem in their respective countries. The report, ‘Citizens’ Views ...

China’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Liu Yantao, argues that by exploring the essence of democracy we can address practical issues and create better conditions for people “Democracy”, a concept that ...

Recently, the Covid-19 pandemic has resurged globally despite the launch of massive vaccination programmes worldwide. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, over 200 million infections and 4.3 million deaths have been recorded. ...

But first those who bear the political responsibility for the road accidents at the Baths of Aphrodite must be held to account By Maria Hadjimichael Following the tragic accident near ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides During 2020, the European Central Bank (ECB) undertook a strategic review of its policy framework. Such a review requires an in-depth evaluation while constituting best ...

By Gavin Jones It’s said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes and who can argue with that. Monarchies, democracies, dictatorships and indeed all systems ...

Cyprus remains deficient in many aspects largely due to the size of its shadow economy By Les Manison The ageing of populations and the devastating socio/economic effects of the ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis The cascading events in Afghanistan have taken the whole world aback. The extremist Taliban after a two-decade respite, are back in power. The Western intervention in the ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi ON August 24, Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of its Independence, in honour of the adoption of the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine by the Verkhovna ...

By Özge Özoğul Regardless of what language we speak, what if we set the language of peace as our lingua franca to end violent communication once and for all? ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis Turkey is an energy hungry economy. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessment of Turkey’s energy needs in 2020, the country currently imports approximately 72 per ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent years, and especially after the global crisis of 2008, supervisory requirements in the financial sector have been strengthened significantly. Taking into account the ...