The Annan plan doesn’t look so bad now
There are clear parallels between Cyprus now and Greece in 1922, but in Cyprus it was largely reversible When some were saying before the 2004...
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The mRNA miracle?
All the usual caveats apply: don’t go out and celebrate, don’t let your guard down, it’s still going to be a long haul. This winter...
A tight or a loose federation?
The logic of the decentralised federation is reminiscent of the song of the sirens One of the basic reasons that has led the Cyprus...
Sacred cows need sacrificing for a Cyprus settlement
The international community and international law are dead against breakaway states Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s picnic at Varosha last Sunday was a bit of...
Do you believe in ghosts?
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou THE WAY THINGS ARE The Irish love mystic myths and ghost stories. Perhaps Ireland’s natural atmosphere has a lot to do...
What a Biden presidency means for oil and gas
Joe Biden has pledged to put climate change driven policies at the centre of the US energy industry During the US presidential elections, president-elect...
Decades spent looking in the wrong place
The solution to the Cyprus problem was always there, ‘outside the box’ By Christos Panayiotides Three to four thousand Turkish Cypriots demonstrated last Tuesday...
Normal life to return after vaccine
By Alper Ali Riza A vaccine at last! The arrival of a vaccine is great news even though it has not been licensed yet...
The flight of the Pelikan: Erdogan’s son-in-law departs
Resignation signals a growing crisis within Turkey’s ruling AKP By Jonathan Gorvett Financial markets can be cruel places, as Turkey’s former central bank governor Murat...
Armenia ceasefire: a truce to last
THIS time, the truce will last. The 2,000 Russian troops flying into Armenia this week and fanning out to police the ceasefire lines in Nagorno-Karabakh...
Turkish economy in dire straits
By George Koumoullis The biggest problem plaguing the Turkish economy today is the downward spiral of its currency. During this year, the Turkish lira (TL)...
Turkey must abandon its revisionist policy
No surprise that many cycles of negotiations have not led to a breakthrough By Andreas Theophanous Following the elections in the occupied northern part of...
We must act fast to save any hope of a BBF
Serving up endless sterile ‘Nos’ has got us nowhere By Christos P Panayiotides Following the first, informal two-hour meeting between the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin...
US election: were 100 million postal votes lawful?
By Alper Ali Riza On election night last Tuesday US President Donald Trump claimed he had won the election and on Thursday night he gave...
Seeing is not always believing
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Two Cypriot businessmen went to Moscow in deep winter. One was experienced, knew the climate and the place;...
Erdogan’s deflection tactics
The Turkish president’s aggressive foreign policy pursuits are a way to distract from economic failures at home UNTIL early October it looked as if...
We are running out of options
As partition of the island is increasingly becoming a likely outcome, it is time to look the bull in the eye; beating around the bush...
Trump to challenge likely defeat in Supreme Court
IT LOOKS as though it is going to be curtains for President Donald Trump next week. Swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio have been...
Hydrogen: the fuel of the future
Green hydrogen has been described as the rockstar of new energies By Charles Ellinas The EU released in July its ‘Hydrogen Strategy’ for a climate-neutral...
Ersin Tatar is more middle-class Nicosia than Black Sea
ERSIN Tatar did not win in Nicosia last Sunday but he is as much a Nicosia man as Akinci and Anastasiades are Limassol guys. Which...
