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Research shows cognitive differences between generations are diminishing By Stephen Badham We often assume young people are smarter, or at least quicker, than older people. For example, we’ve all ...

First in a series of articles by retired ambassador and former permanent secretary of the foreign ministry, Andreas Pirishis who looks at the Cyprus problem from the viewpoint of a ...

By Ioannis Tirkides These are unprecedented times. We are simultaneously on the cusp of a technological revolution and the promise of unparalleled economic prospects, and on the brink of total ...

By Alexandra Ulmer and Jason Lange Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is using his hush money trial to squeeze his loyal army of small donors and personally lobby major backers ...

It means they struggle to navigate life on the outside By Ye In (Jane) Hwang You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t ...

The key pillars of development, financing ownership and governance of affordable housing explained By Erol Riza Cyprus, like many other EU countries, faces a socio-economic problem of a shortage of ...

By Pierre Micheletti A little over ten years after a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the coast of Lampedusa, claiming the lives of 368 migrants, another boat ...

By Grant Duncan Many western countries have seen a decline of trust in government and politicians. But if you’re one of the distrustful majority, that may not be such ...

Killer algorithms outpace international law By Natasha Karner The Israeli army used a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to generate lists of tens of thousands of human targets for potential ...

By Daniel Drache In November 2023, Geert Wilders’ stridently anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim party swept the Dutch elections in what the media called a political earthquake. The magnitude of his win came as ...

By Gulcin Ozkan For many years, it wasn’t the economy that determined voting behaviour in Turkey. The country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won almost every election he ...

US frustration has reached an apex By Arshad Mohammed, Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland US President Joe Biden effectively gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum on Thursday: protect ...

Any tax reform should strive towards fiscal policies that strive for sustainable finances and ecconomic Equity By Orestis Aristides With regards to personal income tax, the option of taxing family ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi Ukraine categorically rejects the accusations, put forth by Russian officials claiming Ukraine`s involvement in the shooting at the Crocus concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. We ...

By Roberta Metsola Summer 2024 will be the largest global election year in history. Much of the world’s population will be called upon to vote, including the people of Cyprus ...

By Marios Eliades The European People’s Party (EPP), which groups together the Centre-Right parties of the European Union, held its congress in Bucharest about two weeks ago. As expected, ...

By Shaun Narine Many observers of American politics are understandably terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected president of the United States in November. The US is already ...

Implementation of the Directive in Cyprus likely to have notable impacts By Kyriaki Stinga and Emilios Charalambous The year 2023 marked 30 years since the establishment of the European Single Market and ...

By Yi Xin On February 24, the Ukraine crisis marked its two-year anniversary. Despite the bloodshed on the battlefield and suffering of innocent lives, fighting continues with no sign of abating. ...

By Zafiris Tzannatos What was once a common practice in authoritarian regimes, such as those of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist Romania, is now being revived all over ...

By Glafkos Constantinides The Cyprus problem remains unsolved for a good 50 years. In this political ‘production function’, to use a term borrowed from economics, the only constant is change. Little ...

By Maria Demertzis On security issues, the European Union does not speak collectively with one voice and member states are very far from having the same objectives on defence. Yet, ...

In recent decades, a number of factors have contributed to a containment in defence spending, including: (a) the end of the cold war which, unlike prior conflicts, was accomplished peacefully, (...

By Mary Butler TD We realise that, in Ireland, we are fortunate to have a National Day that almost everyone knows. St. Patrick’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate ...