Nuclear power: the missing piece of the puzzle
At the stroke of midnight last Friday, half of Germany’s remaining nuclear power stations closed down. The remaining three plants (of an original 17) will...
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What 2022 will bring for energy
As the world shifts irrevocably and inexorably towards clean energy and net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry is finding itself under siege on multiple...
Surrealism alive and well in Cyprus
Our leaders embraced illogical behaviour from the beginning and have never deviated from that path By Christos Panayiotides The word “surrealism” comes from the...
Ghislaine Maxwell should have taken the stand
By Alper Ali Riza Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of procuring underage girls for her lover Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison awaiting trial...
‘Nuclear Twilight’: Something else to worry about
As a dreadful year draws to an end and the Omicron variant turns out to be less lethal than its predecessors, premature outbreaks of cheerfulness...
Tale of a creepy Christmas
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Maari spent some not unpleasant years at boarding school. Her parents, serving the Crown in far flung...
Humouring Putin
The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Russian leader Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a...
Back to EEZs, licensing and exploration
ExxonMobil considers the East Med a promising hydrocarbon basin By Charles Ellinas With Covid-19 resurging, Cyprus’ EEZ is back in the limelight. ExxonMobil is about...
Energy: the risks of success
By Gwynne Dyer The “new normal”, said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected,...
It’s time to embrace the spirit of Christmas
By Christos P. Panayiotides We have arrived, yet again, at Christmas, which we will celebrate next Saturday. At Christmas, we recall the innocence of the...
Inadequate institutional quality damaging Cyprus economy
Government inefficiency, corruption and bad policies based on ignoring the huge amount of debt will come back to bite us By Les Manison Research...
Fibbing may yet bring down Boris Johnson
By Alper Ali Riza The victory of Helen Morgan over the Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst in the North Shropshire mid-term election on Friday is a...
Reform of the fiscal framework in the EU
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy in the EU is gradually improving, despite the continuing pandemic. The historically unprecedented monetary and fiscal support...
All kinds of threatening gestures, but Russia will not invade Ukraine
I must admit that I googled the plot of the 1997 film ‘Wag the Dog’ before starting to write this. It’s a dark comedy about...
A letter that presaged Cyprus’ tragedy
The trajectory of the 1959-64 events was clearly pointing to the catastrophe that followed A captivating, well-documented new book by Takis Hadjidemetriou traces the...
How your GP should never let you down
The four pillars of medical ethics should hold firm under a national health service According to the Modern Hippocratic Oath there is art to...
Artificial or interim intelligence?
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou ‘Ism’ is a suffix for many words now: cyborgism anyone? Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, made to fight unfeelingly as...
Covid-19: digital peasants and the ignorant rich
The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa...
Energy transition is unstoppable
Calls for more drastic action intensifying Energy transition is unstoppable, particularly in Europe. Despite the current energy crisis, calls for faster energy transition during COP26...
University independence is sacrosanct
Two recent incidents have attempted to undermine the status of the University of Cyprus In the relatively short period since its foundation in 1989,...
