Our View: Appointment undermines president’s narrative
The establishment of the National Security Council (NSC), which President Nikos Christodoulides believes would help him deal with security and strategy issues, was approved by...
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Our View: The bigger threat to our society and economy is the low birthrate, not migrant flow
When Elam was given the presidency of the ad hoc parliamentary committee on the demographic problem it may have thought of it as the ideal...
Our View: Being offensive, vulgar and insensitive is not against the law
Universal outrage greeted the post by maverick independent deputy Andreas Themistocleous on Facebook mocking Greens deputy Alexandra Attalidou. There is no denying that his post...
Our View: EU Commission is right to put an end to VAT cut abuse
The European Commission has informed the government that it does not accept the formula put together by the parliamentary parties for VAT on the construction...
Our View: We are dangerously close to returning to pre-bailout fiscal spending
Ten years have passed since the bailout, which devastated the economy, and seven have passed since the country exited the assistance programme that was imposed...
Our View: New allegations of corruption in football – the same old story
The allegations of corruption in Cyprus football surface every once in a while, triggering a surge of critical articles in the media and indignant comments...
Our View: Government must ignore objections to prices app
One of the tenets of perfect competition, in economic theory, is that consumers have perfect or full information. Of course, the model of perfect competition...
Our View: Government needs to take sides over AGs’ spat
After the inexplicable level of deference President Nikos Christodoulides showed to the auditor-general over government appointments it was expected that he would not take a...
Our View: Civil service can’t support digitisation and more jobs
It would have been a big surprise if President Christodoulides had gone to his first Pasydy conference not bearing gifts. Pandering to the civil servants...
Our View: New energy plans must be explained
The Sunday before last, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced, out of the blue, that natural gas would be sent from Israel’s gas fields by...
