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Our View: Naval facilities for France has little to do with gas

February 5th, 20192875 DURING his short visit to Cyprus last week, France’s President Emmanuel Macron described Cyprus as “a strategic point on an aeronautical level for...

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Our View: Anastasiades and the ‘two-state-solution by stealth’

February 3rd, 20193712 THE UN Secretary-General’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute is back in Cyprus and will meet the leaders today and tomorrow. This will be her fourth visit to the...

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Our View: Anti-drug resources should go more to prevention

February 2nd, 20192085 EVERY once in a while, the media picks up a drug-related story and makes a big issue out of it, prompting organised groups and politicians to express concerns...

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Our View: House committees should take care over who they invite

February 1st, 20192387 THE ALLEGATIONS about a secondary school canteen manager selling drugs to students became a big news story in the last couple of days. After all, the...

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Our View: The main aim of MED7 summit was immigration not our EEZ

January 31st, 20192132 MOST of Wednesday’s newspapers carried glowing reports about the MED7 gathering in Nicosia. “They sent powerful messages,” read one front-page headline...

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Our View: Judges remain a weakness in the justice system

January 30th, 20192199 Akel deputy Irini Charalambidou was correct to ask questions of the government regarding advertisements for 35 positions of judges. The government requires 23...

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Our View: Cyprob bickering scales new heights

January 29th, 20192766 THE Cyprus problem can always be relied on to spark political rows. At present everyone is rowing with everyone else about the type of settlement we should go...

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Our View: Time for politicians to declare conflict of interest too

January 27th, 20193802 Conflict of interest has been the big political issue of the last few weeks, with the judges of the supreme court having become everyone’s target for their...

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Our View: Another perk for privileged public servants

January 26th, 20192721 THE operation of a nursery did not only help families and children but also contributed decisively to the harmonisation of family and professional life of...

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Our View: Judges should be just as accountable as any public officials

January 25th, 20191684 ALL THE main players in the recent controversy surrounding the supreme court attended the House institutions committee meeting on Wednesday. The president of...

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Our View: We revert to old spending practices at our peril

January 24th, 20191846 PRUDENT management of the economy did not last very long as an objective of the political establishment. It lasted for as long as Cyprus was in the assistance...

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Do our extremists know better than the Greek government?

January 23rd, 20193685 When the Parliament of Greece votes on the ratification of the agreement between the governments of Athens and Skopje over the renaming of the Former Yugoslav...

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Our View: It suits president’s plan to suddenly honour Makarios

January 22nd, 20192432 IT WAS surprising to see President Anastasiades as the guest of honour and speaker at an “event in memory and honour of Archbishop Makarios III”....

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Our View: If only our judges were capable of showing humility

January 20th, 20192389 THIS has not been a good time for the legal establishment. Lawyers, supreme court judges and the attorney-general have turned on each other, questions have...

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Children should be treated like children, not trade unionists

January 19th, 20192104 WE DO NOT know how many students followed the instructions of their union Psem and boycotted the third and fourth periods at secondary schools on Friday in...

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Our View: May won a reprieve but there are not many options open to her

January 18th, 20191768 BRITAIN’S beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May survived Wednesday night’s confidence vote, as had been widely expected, but this neither strengthened her...

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Our View: Who really used elections as a ploy to delay talks?

January 17th, 20192374 ON SUNDAY night the CyBC television news reported that Turkey had officially asked the UN for the resumption of the talks to be put back to June. It did not...

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Our View: Cyprus judges labour under the illusion they are untouchable

January 16th, 20193557 Everyone has now had their say about last week’s revelations of conflict of interest at the supreme court. Despite the supreme court judges’ protestations...

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Our View: We should have learnt property bubble lesson by now

January 15th, 20197730 THE WARNING about the possibility of another property bubble in the making, issued by the Nobel prize winning economist Christophoros Pissarides, should be...

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Our View: The government has treated Gesy with superficiality

January 13th, 20194546 LESS than a year into its second term, the unravelling of the Anastasiades presidency appears to be gathering speed. In the early hours of Friday, the Cyprus...

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