Syrian sanctions won’t work, they very rarely do
LAST week the United States imposed new sanctions on Syria: a “sustained campaign of economic and political pressure” to end the nine-year war by forcing...
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The judges appoint the judges
The Cyprus bar association has complained about how judges are appointed. Similar complaints in the UK led to reforms in 2005 By Alper Ali Riza...
EU and UN are losing patience
The dangers of saying ‘We’re alright, thank you’ By Christos Panayiotides “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what...
Putin’s almost desperate plea for preservation of international order
DONALD Trump writes in tweets, with more exclamation marks than a thirteen-year-old girl’s diary. Nobody knows for sure whether his very limited vocabulary is due...
Aphrodite in need of fresh thinking
Cyprus urgently needs a revised, post-Covid-19, energy strategy AS expected, Noble Energy, the operator of Aphrodite, is putting development of the gas field on hold....
Time to reconcile the executive and the legislative arms of the state
The ongoing difficulty consistently encountered in securing a harmonious cooperative relationship between the executive and the legislative arms of the state, safely leads to the...
Lessons from history: ‘Beware the man of one book’
Aquinas’ philosophy explains to a large degree why the Cyprus problem has never been solved Whoever draws his knowledge from only one spiritual source while...
EU refugee directives unfair on Cyprus
The main thrust of EU law has been to design a common policy towards refugees when such an approach was wrong for small island countries...
Can four-day work week save economies?
As countries in Europe and North America emerge from lockdown and start trying to rebuild their devastated economies, the great concern is jobs. Unemployment in...
Union with Greece has already been accomplished
By Christos P Panayiotides I am sure that a few of you will wonder why I open such a sensitive issue when it constitutes an...
Libya: the incredible irrelevance of America
By Gwynne Dyer ‘Field Marshal’ Khalifa Haftar’s retreat from Tripoli should not be confused with Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Haftar was foolish to try to capture...
Churchill and Nelson were not slave merchants
By Alper Ali Riza I never heard of Edward Colston, the 18th century slave merchant, Bristol MP and benefactor, whose statue was desecrated and dumped...
Brazil: populist pandemic and callous disinterest
What do you do if you are in charge of dealing with the pandemic and the number of deaths is getting out of control? Simple....
The auditor-general: a case of self-castration
An independent authority is not synonymous with an autocratic authority By Christos Panayiotides President Nicos Anastasiades’ conclusion that auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides is seeking to govern...
Turkey escalating East Med EEZ disputes
With shifting interests in the region it is time for the US and the EU to help Turkey and Greece back to a position of...
A grab for power can be the only rationale for unlikely Akel-Diko alliance
By George Koumoullis A CHAIN of events has sparked rumours that Diko and Akel have agreed to cooperate in both the parliamentary and presidential elections....
Man’s inhumanity to man in the time of corona
By Alper Ali Riza We know that black lives don’t matter in the US but to see a black guy asphyxiated in cold blood in...
Starmer and stammering
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou By the time this goes to print the Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Boris Johnson’s...
Pressing need to revise our strategy on national problem
It is readily apparent that the strategy followed on the Cyprus problem has turned the issue into a headache for the international community The...
