Banks need the ability to adapt quickly to survive and prosper
By George Theocharides Recently we experienced fallout between the main banks (BoC, Hellenic Bank) and the union of bank employees (ΕΤΥΚ) that resulted in strikes....
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The horrible pong: the stench of corruption is everywhere and is suffocating us
“Pong” is English slang, meaning a very unpleasant smell. The term (bocha, in Greek) probably comes from the Turkish word “bok”, which means shit. This...
It’s not Akel that laid the bad egg
Despite serious blunders along the way, Akel has been on the right side of history When he was president of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias used to...
Fall of the wall: a European Germany, not a German Europe
The fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago on Saturday, was one of the best parties I ever went to, and certainly the longest....
Rambo and the Spartans
THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I met Andreas on the road, head down talking quietly to himself, that’s how he irons out the...
Falling short of energy expectations
Importing LNG was never going to be enough to meet climate targets By Charles Ellinas NOVEMBER 1 marked the start of public consultation for the...
Protests everywhere
Journalists don’t just travel in packs; they write in packs too. And what they’ve written this week is endless pipe-sucking ruminations about what’s driving the...
The time of reckoning has come
I feel the need and the obligation to express my concern for the lack of progress in resolving the political problem, which has beset our...
Ethno-populism: time to expose a new elite
To comprehend what exactly ‘ethno-populism’ is, we must first clear in our mind what exactly ‘populism’ is. Professor of Political Science at Princeton University Jan-Werner...
Trump plays cupid in UK general election
IT HAS been a long time coming, the general election in the UK. It seems ages since 2017 when Theresa May threw away an overall...
‘Syria solution benefits all countries in the region’
THE recent initiatives by the United States and Russia to halt the Turkish invasion of Syria presented a crisis with international dimensions, as a plethora...
The Middle East: winners and losers
THE death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi serves as a symbolic full stop to the many civil wars that have engulfed Syria in the...
Europe’s ‘green deal’ requires radical change
Cyprus is not meeting its current climate change targets to 2020, and is already facing another challenge By Charles Ellinas Green issues played a decisive...
Mass denialism in Cyprus is a way of maintaining sanity
Denialism is a person’s choice to deny reality as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds...
There is a cure for flight-shaming
By Gwynne Dyer Qantas, the Australian airline, has just test-flown the world’s longest commercial air-route: 10,200 miles (16,500 km.) from New York non-stop to Sydney....
Mourning clandestine corpses
By Alper Ali Riza The news last week of the horrible death of 39 men and women who suffocated in a refrigerated lorry en route...
Cyprus should heed what’s happening in Syria
We should be working with the Turkish Cypriots to avoid the excesses of Erdogan THERE are many lessons to be drawn from Turkey’s invasion...
Everyone understands English. No one understands England
Jean-Claude Juncker, the outgoing president of the European Commission, is a lightweight apparatchik with a gift for languages and a fondness for the odd glass...
The ‘motherlands’ must be kept at a distance
There is little doubt that the misfortunes of Cyprus have to a large extent been caused by the involvement of Greece and Turkey...
