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There are rights and obligations, and you can’t invoke rights but eschew obligations If called upon to rule on the matter, no European institution would buy the argument that ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Maari and Maria are very different: Maari is still as flamboyant in manner and mode as she was in the 60s, Maria ...

The plight of Theklia and Christos two mixed heritage children refused Cypriot ID cards is too close to home and personally too close to the bone to ignore. It was ...

The primacy of the EU’s legal system over the laws and constitutions of member states is necessary for the union to exist By Alper Ali Riza The spat between ...

The system would protect both communities By Christos P Panayiotides Before attempting to explain why the issue of political equality is important for the Turkish Cypriots, but also for the ...

More concern about next elections than worrying about next 30 years By Charles Ellinas There is a huge gap between what we need to do about climate change in the region ...

It’s possible that the tide which brought hard-right populist governments to power in a number of Central European countries is starting to go out again. In the Czech Republic, ...

The people with the power to combat corruption and collusion are the very ones who benefit from perpetuating them The “Pandora Papers” are a cooperative international project of a large ...

By Les Manison Comparative data for 2021Q2 published by the ECB under its Single Supervisory Mechanism, reveal that the three largest Cypriot banks performed poorly relative to most of their ...

Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou In 2008, Professor KC Nicolaou, multi-awarded, Karavas-born Cypriot-American, co-authored with Tamsyn Montagnon, a thoughtfully laid out book Molecules that changed the world. Nicolaou ...

Britain, Greece and Turkey have all failed in their assigned roles When the Republic of Cyprus was born in 1960, she was given three “god-mothers” – Britain, Greece and Turkey – who were ...

Europe is at fault for not addressing low gas storage levels early-on The energy crisis rumbles-on with no easy answers emerging to bring it under control. Europe’s leaders met ...

‘Don’t bother your pretty head about it’ is the prevailing media take on the risk of the volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Canary Islands turning into a ...

I don’t care what people call their national coffee so long as it tastes like Turkish coffee Apologies to Patroclos for encroaching on coffeeshop territory. I’ve been meaning ...

A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world’s intelligence services – and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a ...

By Gwynne Dyer It’s been the biggest shock in archaeology for a long time. British and American archaeologists have found solid evidence that human beings – we could call them ‘...

The Greek Cypriots have two options over their political future By Christos P. Panayiotides A friend and classmate of mine recently sent me an article by Michael Rubin, an American ...

By Alper Ali Riza A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The series The Fall is set in a religiously and politically tinderbox-tense Belfast where Gillian Anderson, a senior metropolitan police officer sent ...

Europe has been left exposed to the vagaries of extreme weather Europe is going through a natural gas crisis, partly self-inflicted. The spectacular increase in gas, but also electricity, prices ...

I am reverting on the subject of my article of last Sunday because it is an issue of the highest national importance. As I have already explained in the past, “...

Much commotion but not much change as the most trusted politician in Germany steps down Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls ...

The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...