Guest Columnist

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

Last week the Cyprus Mail quizzed the major political parties on a variety of environmental issues including illegal bird-trapping, ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. BirdLife Cyprus explains why ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Globally, noticeable progress has been achieved in decoupling economic growth and consumption of energy and natural resources. At the same time, we are seeing ...

Changes and reforms are the answer and we have to take this into account when voting on Sunday By Achilleas Demetriades The House elections on Sunday have, I believe, particular ...

By Michael Sarris In the years before the pandemic, a combination of factors such as political stability, better macroeconomic and structural policies, improving governance and more effective international financial assistance, ...

By Jean-Pierre Lacroix Over the past year, to be a United Nations peacekeeper in the field has meant adopting new levels of flexibility and resilience in the face of evolving ...

By Victor When Turkey invaded and occupied a third of Cyprus in 1974 the international community condemned Turkey’s actions, but its strong words were not met with actions or results. ...

Cyprus walking a thin line between EU and China on infrastructure development By Jason Krentos Cyprus may soon be in a position where it will have to choose between elements ...

Despite difficulties and under extremely unfavourable conditions, we managed to fundamentally reform the health sector By Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou The general health system (Gesy) which has been hailed as ...

We made a mint from our cheese of white gold until the Hell-Loonies and the Eyu had their say By Fahri Zihni Hail-Umi, the goddess of creation, knew she had ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Due to the upcoming parliamentary elections for a new legislature an increasing number of parties are being established to seek a role in political decision-making, constantly ...

Pathways to sustainable peace By Kalliope Agapiou Josephides Conceptual unity and diversity in actuality (Unité de concept et diversité de fait) as acknowledged by Fernand Braudel in attempting to conceptualise ...

DP World Limassol ready to welcome cruise lines back, as Cyprus makes a dynamic return to become Eastern Mediterranean’s top cruise hub By Nawaf Abdulla More than one year ...

Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Back in September 2020, when we reviewed the negative performance of the once-rapidly growing Turkish economy, we felt that the country’s economic policy had reached ...

Is the SafePass forcing us to get vaccinated? Why is it so selectively applied? A look at the balancing act between public interest and private rights By Achilleas Demetriades The ...

Cyprus has traditionally been a popular destination for Lebanese investors and families, there are now more incentives than ever By Nicolas Tsardellis and Kriton Dionysiou The economic downturn Lebanon is ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis The issue of nuclear disarmament is seminal in world affairs. Its importance dominated the agenda of relations between the liberal West and the communist East during the ...

By Stella Kyriakides Vaccination is picking up the pace across the EU with the numbers increasing by the day. Last week we saw the largest deliveries of safe and effective ...

The countries in the Three Seas Region were hit less by Covid-19 pandemic and are forecast to recover faster than the rest of the EU due to infrastructural investment, good ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Until recent years, international financial organisations supported the view that narrowly defined fiscal discipline was an absolute prerequisite for long-term sustainable growth. The foundations ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi On April 26, Ukraine marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the catastrophic nuclear accident which occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. ...

By Judith Garber On my very first walk around Nicosia two years ago, I passed a group of young Cypriots creating posters calling on their fellow citizens to take bold ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For most countries defence spending constitutes a percentage of their GDP which is not negligible. As a case in point, during 2020 the five nations ...

The Cyprus LNG plant and the East Med pipeline under the spectre of the Turkish ‘blue homeland’ in the East Med’s energy game By Panayiotis Tilliros The geopolitical and ...