CM Regular Columnist

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has launched his invasion of Lebanon. As usual in the opening stages of Israeli incursions into that fragile country, the signs and portents look ...

In managing the Cyprus economy, decision-makers focus on real GDP growth and whether the government is generating surpluses. Indeed, government officials backed by the European Commission, the IMF and numerous ...

Britain will hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while retaining delegated sovereignty over Diego Garcia, a joint British American military base Britain withheld ...

The discovery of the highly promising Aphrodite gas field in 2011 presented Cyprus with economic and political opportunities, while at the same time it risked a worsening of its already tense ...

Although Serbs have existed as a distinct ethnicity for centuries, contemporary Serbia is the result of the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia and subsequent wars. Yugoslavia was formed after the end ...

In a unanimous and trenchant judgment, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus sitting as a discrete Council in an application to dismiss the auditor-general for misconduct decided on Wednesday that ...

I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the response Serdar Atai got to his recent article, The Bitter Truth, published on September 1 in the Cyprus Mail. Admittedly, there were ...

Before saying anything about the Great Debate in the US last week between the best-looking old man Donald Trump and the best-looking fifty-something woman, a few words about the way ...

Six Jewish hostages were murdered by Hamas last week just before the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reached them, and a controversy has erupted in Israel about whether Prime Minister Benjamin ...

The role of the state in the field of investments is becoming increasingly important, as, over the coming decades, additional funds will be required for the purposes of: (a) tackling ...

But families still waiting for justice seven years later Judge-led inquiries that investigate events that cause serious loss of life are part of the procedural aspect of the right to ...

Fortress America and Festung Europa (Fortress Europe) are just starting to take shape; bare outlines of what they will have grown into ten years from now. But the trend is ...

Article 9 of the Constitution of the Cyprus Republic states that “Every person has a right to a decent existence and to social security”. The aim of this article is in ...

Like the Titanic the super yacht Bayesian that sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak weather event on August 19 was virtually unsinkable. But it sank and seven passengers ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic Party’s official candidate for president. In her acceptance speech, she introduced herself as if she were a complete unknown even though ...

Elon Musk is heading for a crash. It’s only a matter of time before one or another of his random enthusiasms brings him down. But if I had the ...

Economic theory has its roots in antiquity. As early as the 18th century BC, the Babylonian King Hammurabi’s Code includes references to property rights, contracts, credit and economic justice. ...

Now that the bronze, silver and gold dust has settled, we can perhaps reflect on the Paris Olympics 2024.  The Olympic games are a gift to us all from the ancient ...

As we get closer to critical decision-making deadlines, there is no end to debates about the viability and future of the Great Sea Interconnector. But sadly, often these are not ...

Northern Epirus is a triangular Greek-speaking region that starts from the Greek-Albanian border and extends north-westerly to Vlorë (Avlonas) and north-easterly to Korçë (Korytsa) and the Small Lake of Prespa. ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...

Sure, we’re biased about home products, Smuggling Hendrix was great, and everyone I’ve asked said Stelana Kliris’ Find Me Falling was captivating. Some foreign critics deemed it simple ...

In December 2023, I wrote an article about the Israel-Palestine conflict which reflected many people’s abhorrence of the murder and abductions of innocent Israeli civilians when the Hamas militia launched ...

Decision-making regarding appraisal, risk assessment and management of public investment projects as well as possible partnership agreements with the private sector are taken with increasingly little consideration of the potential ...