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By Maria Demertzis The need to accelerate defense spending is now inescapable. This is both feasible economically and will boost domestic demand in the short run, which will help the ...

By Loukis Skaliotis There is growing realisation in Europe that relying on itself for its defense is a top priority. President Trump’s “America first” policies have not taken long ...

By Andreas Theophanous When it was first announced that Nikos Christodoulides would run for the presidency, expectations soared. Yet, as time passed, doubts about his candidacy began to surface, revealing ...

By Kerry Abbott The round table meeting on Cyprus due to take place next month may be postponed. The reason has been heard before: no common ground. In a previous ...

By Radosław Sikorski Browsing social media I have recently come across a map showing all the countries with GDP per capita higher than Poland’s back in 1990 and in 2018. ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Some time ago, I wrote in the Sunday Mail that US President Donald Trump’s policies instead of making America great again, would rather usher in the ...

Our president presented his promises for the remainder of his presidency on January 29. Of course I should say he re-presented his promises, since many of them were presented in his 100...

By Dannagal G Young It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion ...

By Dee Ninis Greece’s government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only ...

By David J Galbreath The new US president, Donald Trump, has only been in office for a few days, but he has already changed his tune on the war in ...

By Branko Milanovic Almost never are witnesses to historical events aware they are observing or participating in a history-changing event. Often, the very protagonists of the historical events are unaware ...

By Savvakis C Savvides The recent debacle leading to the rush decision on how to proceed with the Larnaca marina project proves, yet again, that we never learn from our ...

By Loukis Skaliotis “Maybe the world isn’t ending after all. Or at least, not yet anyway.” The above would be a good summary of US President Biden’s (now ...

By Euripides Evivriades AI is not a distant challenge; it is already reshaping our economies, democracies and societies. However, the debate remains dominated by a few corporations amassing billions in ...

By Leontios Ierodiakonou Last week’s article ended on a pessimistic note, about six decades having passed since the first hostilities began. Many things have changed – the displacement of a ...

By Miranda Xafa In an international environment of great turmoil and rapid change over the past year, Greece has stood out as a pole of political and economic stability in ...

By Euripides L. Evriviades The East Med is increasingly becoming a geopolitical battleground, where competing claims over maritime rights, energy resources and regional influence converge. The Republic of Cyprus (RoC) ...

By Jonathan Landay and Ted Hesson As investigators learn more about the man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State and killed 14 people with a truck on New Year’s Day ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Recently the Cyprus Mail was warning that the government budget was pushing the public sector wage bill to unsustainable highs. It was an observation that did not ...

Nowadays, with daily life becoming increasingly demanding, the need for physical exercise has never been more significant. Many of us face a common dilemma: running or walking? Which activity is ...

By Mark Bendeich Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides History is not just the outcome of personalities, competing platforms, or a matter of chance. It can be all of that at times. But history is cumulative ...

By Julie Old At this time of year, images of reindeer are everywhere. I’ve had a soft spot for reindeer ever since I was a little girl. Doesn’t ...

By Konstantine Kvachakidze October 2024 parliamentary elections in Georgia were won by the Georgian Dream, ruling party. The elections were assessed by international observers as held in fair and democratic environment, ...