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By Maria Demertzis The private sector can cover at least half of the investment gap identified in Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report but will only do so if the EU’...

By Charalambos Charalambous As Cyprus enters a new era, the sports sector offers a valuable opportunity to enrich both the lives of individuals and the community as a whole. By ...

By Loukis Skaliotis In a previous article I commented on the need for the world community to restructure the UN if it is to play a more effective role in ...

According to the United Nations 2024 is “the biggest election year in human history” with half of the world’s population – some 3.7 billion people in 72 countries – able to vote. Yet some ...

My aim is to discuss how the conflicting views of both sides on the issue of property can be reconciled and what the new constitution of a federal bizonal and ...

By Euripides Evriviades There is Nato, known to all, with 32 members. There is also the Nato Partnership for Peace, known to most, with 18 members. There is also the Nato Partners, ...

By Thomas Gift Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently made history by catching a Starship rocket booster as it careened back to Earth, wants you to vote for Donald Trump ...

By Luigi Scazzieri A year after Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel, the Middle East is on the edge of a broader war. For a time, Europeans and ...

By Matt Spetalnick and Jonathan Landay Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The Middle East is currently embroiled in a complex and potentially explosive situation that could spiral out of control. Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel on October 1 ...

By Charalambos Charalambous Education serves as the bedrock of any society’s development. To ensure we adequately prepare future generations for the complexities of the modern world, we must rethink ...

By Brian Lait I have studied both Islam and Judaism closely for many decades. Indeed, as a young man I attended prayers in a mosque when I worked in the ...

By Gavin Jones Refugeedom is an emotive, complex subject which brings out the best and worst in people and has done so ever since I can remember. The statistics are ...

Cyprus, the sun-soaked Mediterranean island, has long been known for its pristine beaches and ancient ruins. But in recent years, a new attraction has been drawing a different kind of ...

By Simone Tagliapietra A report on the future of European competitiveness, prepared by former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi and long awaited in Brussels, is finally out. It is expected ...

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons Global pop star Taylor Swift’s support for Kamala Harris may have boosted the Democratic vice president’s hopes of attracting young voters, but ...

By James Oliphant Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will battle each other next week in their first televised debate, a high-stakes clash that could give the winner an ...

By Jon Richardson Russia’s announcement this week that it is revising its nuclear weapons doctrine has raised questions about what this means – and whether it marks a significant escalation ...

By George Markides, George Kassinis, Andreas Soteriou Over the past two decades, financial technology (FinTech) has transformed the established financial sector by introducing more efficient and innovative methods of providing ...

By Savvakis C Savvides The sad truth is that politicians and government officers involved in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreements is that by circumventing what needs to be evaluated and assessed ...

By Kyriaki Stinga and Dorina Mastora There is an ongoing concern that AI might eventually take over human roles. However, as compliance officers in the legal field, we believe that ...

By Dr Dipesh Shah  The government of India implemented a major financial sector reform by establishing the country’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in GIFT City, Gujarat. The ...

By Ioannis Tirkides When the Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate from a range of zero to 0.1 per cent to 0.25 per cent, arguably to stem the yen’s ...