The risky temptation of cryptocurrencies
With Phoenician blood in their veins, Cypriots should be particularly wary of falling into the digital currency trap By Christos P. Panayiotides I...
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UFOs: the silly season comes early
The hope and/or fear that ‘aliens are among us’ had its heyday in the 1950s but is making a comeback By Gwynne Dyer The silly...
A sea of change
June is developing into a crucial month for the East Med and its geopolitics involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus By Charles Ellinas At a recent...
Corruption of EU nationality law: a perfect injustice
Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal...
It’s only words…
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Bee Gees, as denigrated as they were loved, wrote a song called ‘Words’ a line of...
A change in the (economic) weather?
It’s not Bretton Woods, but it’s a start. The decision by the finance ministers of the G7 countries to create a global minimum tax...
Policies and reforms needed to produce equitable growth
Hourly pay for managers is over five times more than for elementary workers – the highest ratio in the EU. The much-heralded Cyprus Tomorrow plan...
Akel’s inevitable decline
The Communist party is hopelessly out of touch and has proved itself untrustworthy The fall in the share of votes secured by Akel in...
Dissecting the parliamentary elections
Our electoral system may be absurd, but last Sunday’s elections secured some very interesting results In a nutshell: in the five-year period since the...
Boris Johnson wedding not cynical but convenient
It was Labour’s prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase, a week is a long time in politics. He was UK prime minister from...
Some good news on the climate front
“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago,...
The West has done its own Belarus-style hijack
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki condemned the “hijacking” of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday, accusing him of...
The big oil shake-up
It was a week of reckoning for the oil and gas industry By Charles Ellinas The oil and gas sector was shaken this past week....
Is it time to forget ‘Do not forget’ slogan?
By Christos P. Panayiotides The slogan “Do not forget” emblazoned over a map of Cyprus dripping blood was created by the well-known communication consultant Nicos...
Where did the good songs go?
Eurovision is a shadow of its former self and that’s before we get to the UK entry By Alper Ali Riza For the UK to...
Taking stock of the Cyprus of yesteryear
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou A man whose father was British told me things were better under British rule than now, which came...
Oil majors in a state of change
As controlling global warming becomes a priority the countries of the East Med could get left behind The headline this week was ‘BP dodges...
Political power mismatch makes voting difficult
Our clunky electoral system makes voting for one of the two biggest parties our only option This coming Sunday we will elect 70 per...
The alarming rise of Elam must be stopped
In an election climate in which parties, politicians, candidates, citizens, TV and press are all exchanging fire about a bizonal, bicommunal federation and trading insults...
Coronavirus: Challenges in productively absorbing EU funds
Cyprus will not be able to take full advantage of ample EU covid aid unless it is willing to undertake major reforms In recent...