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Ask the High Commissioner: Brexit for UK expats in Cyprus

November 18th, 2018 By British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie I am sure that many of you have been closely following the political events taking place in the UK this week...

Opinion

A day in the life of Theresa May

November 18th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza I could not help admiring Theresa May as she answered questions on the Brexit withdrawal agreement for three hours from a hostile...

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Our real internal enemies are within the education system

November 18th, 2018 By George Koumoullis The term ‘internal enemy’ used by the teacher in her celebratory speech to mark the October 28 anniversary of ‘Ochi Day’ has...

Opinion

Optimism over gas drilling, but it’s the sharing that counts

November 18th, 2018 By Charles Ellinas ExxonMobil, using the Stena Icemax drilling rig, has started drilling in block 10 at the first target named Delfini, a very apt name...

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Why has only Canada come clean over the Khashoggi tapes?

November 15th, 2018 How odd! Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sends an audio recording of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul...

Opinion

Sex and the (senior) citizen

November 14th, 2018 The way things are! By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I was speaking to a medical practitioner friend recently about my afternoon glums. That’s the time...

Opinion

We should think of small pebbles when we remember the war

November 11th, 2018 By Gwynne Dyer “If they are not remembered, was the sacrifice they made even worthwhile?” asked an American veteran of the Iraq War who named his son...

Opinion

The celebrated ‘weaning process’

November 11th, 2018 By Christos P Panayiotides “Weaning” is the stage of a baby’s rehabilitation from breastfeeding. In the political sphere, the term is often used to...

Opinion

Why we should listen to Pericles on Remembrance Day

November 11th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza The guns fell silent at 11 o’clock on 11 November 1918 on the western front a hundred years ago today. They had already fallen silent in...

Opinion

The triad of inequality, populism and nationalism

November 10th, 2018 By Andonis Vassiliades The spread of populism and nationalism (grossly illustrated and propagated in the US mid-term elections) calls for explanations....

Energy

Cyprus wants Turkey to be involved in regional energy plans

November 4th, 2018 By Charles Ellinas There was more confidence and optimism in this year’s 14th Economist Cyprus Summit than before. The summit, held on Friday in...

Opinion

People prefer loose to decentralised federation

November 4th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza The truth is a conversation about the nature of federal government and its suitability for a small island divided by ethnic conflict has...

Opinion

Gas a golden opportunity to work together

November 4th, 2018 By George Koumoullis THE president of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades recently advised the Turkish Cypriots to wean themselves off Turkey in order to...

Opinion

Brexit and the troublesome Irish border

November 4th, 2018 By Gwynne Dyer It was either ignorant or irresponsible for those campaigning for Brexit two years ago to claim that the Irish border would not be a problem....

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The naked truth is not the whole truth Mr Erdogan

October 28th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza The Turks should share the evidence of torture contained in the audio recordings in the Khashoggi case with all the law enforcement...

Opinion

The dark and amoral circus of politics

October 28th, 2018 By Andonis Vassiliades Most of the so-called western democracies are acting like a self-appointed cleaning squad, rushing around trying to mop up the mess...

Opinion

Yemen: The bigger Saudi lie

October 28th, 2018 While the west has a collective meltdown over the Khashoggi murder, it has long failed to question a far bigger crime By Gwynne Dyer While...

Opinion

Lafkadio and Amadeo: born into families that valued culture

October 24th, 2018 THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I wrote a while back about an old book I treasure with recipes and remedies from India of 1897. One I...

Opinion

No danger of partition from loose federation

October 21st, 2018 Loose federation is flavour of the month. Apparently, President Nicos Anastasiades has been thinking the unthinkable for some time. He has now said the...

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When a president changes course he should warn his people

October 21st, 2018 The way the president has changed his mind on a Cyprus solution he has shown utter disregard for his voters IN a democratic country the government acts on the...

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