Time for the silent civil society to speak up
We are coming up with lame excuses to avoid negotiations By Christos Panayiotides The forced segregation of the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots over the...
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Art uproar shows ditching blasphemy law long overdue
By George Koumoullis ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos’ demand for the sacking of head-teacher George Gavriel for his ‘sacrilegious’ paintings proves once more that Orthodoxy, in contrast to...
Happy 60th birthday to Cyprus in advance
No wonder there’s little to celebrate By Alper Ali Riza I owe the above title to a Nigerian cab driver that dropped me off between...
Family businesses: Trump and Erdogan versus the world
In award-winning journalist Bob Woodward’s recent book, Rage, the veteran Watergate reporter quotes a January 2020 conversation with US President Donald Trump on the subject...
China, climate and blame
China took a major stride forward on climate on Tuesday. President Xi Jinping, addressing the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, for the...
Island people
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Four small children play on the floor as two women contemplate a drawer with long kitchen knives...
No sector untouched by plans to cut EU carbon emissions by 55 per cent
If such a transition is achieved, it will impact the energy Europeans use, the food they eat, the cars they drive and the homes they...
The last days of the old Middle East
President Donald Trump declared “the dawn of a new Middle East” in Washington on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrein signed public agreements...
Federation: who supports it and why
Views range from full support to resigned acceptance to outright rejection A federation is a form of a state structure and of state governance,...
UK parliament to decide EU’s good faith
Simplistic to assume the British are the bad guys and that the EU is full of the milk of human kindness Before Brexit, Tony...
The politics of distraction: Turkey’s economic foreign policy
By Jonathan Gorvett, CM Regional Correspondent Although President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have told supporters in Istanbul last Saturday that, “Turkey is currently at a...
Russian support is always empty of content
Aftermath of the visit of the Russian foreign minister By Christos Panayiotides In the course of his recent visit to Cyprus, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian...
The strange slogans of the National Guard
Cyprus is Greek and so is Macedonia, according to our soldiers. Really? By George Koumoullis One morning a few days ago, I met some friends...
Britain not acting in breach of international law
According to the EU-UK withdrawal agreement and the Vienna Convention on treaties pacta sunt servanda: treaties are binding on the parties and must be performed...
Syria’s many circles of hell
When Syrian oppositionists first took to the streets nine years ago to demand change, few of them likely expected that in 2020, their war-ravaged country...
September people
THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I was born, and married, in September and have a cluster of friends who celebrate in that...
The future of global gas demand
And its impact on Cyprus’ aspirations to export its gas By Charles Ellinas The future of global gas demand was the subject of the Global...
Cyprus should follow Greece’s lead regarding Turkey
Cyprus’ politicians should reflect the public’s priorities By Christos P Panayiotides We have recently seen significant political developments. The Greek government has clearly indicated that...
War unlawful except in self defence
By Alper Ali Riza Casus Belli is a Latin tag used by diplomats and political leaders to mean a hostile act that justifies use of...
France on the move in the Eastern Mediterranean
With its warplanes recently on exercise over Cyprus, while its warships patrol with the Greek navy, France is now more militarily active in the Eastern...
