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The main challenges currently facing the EU are sluggish growth, low levels of investment, slow adaptation of technology, tight labour markets, as well as over-reliance on conventional forms of energy ...

Recent statements by Cyprus bankers that the profitable activities of banks are contributing importantly to the good performance of the Cyprus economy and that large bank profits emanate mainly from ...

The truth about the past should be uncovered and made known to people to avoid repetition The human rights lawyer and former candidate for president of the Republic of Cyprus (...

THE WAY THINGS ARE After getting into and out of Suits, I was happy to find on Netflix an actor I like, Nathan Fillion, and his female co-workers in The ...

It may seem that the violence and chaos that have gripped Haiti are finally being addressed. The unelected acting president nobody wanted, Ariel Henry, has resigned. An international police force ...

British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, a number of factors have contributed to a containment in defence spending, including: (a) the end of the cold war which, ...

The large magnitudes of tax evasion and tax avoidance are having a profound impact on the economy and citizens of Cyprus. Tax evasion is defined as the deliberate non or ...

There was a very amusing TV clip on BBC World Service last week in which its man in Beijing, Stephen McDonell asks delegates milling about at the Great Hall of ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Critical thinking doesn’t mean teaching children selected influences the teacher either approves or disapproves of. It means giving unbiased information and allowing a child to ...

There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than a hundred years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only twelve million ...

This is the month when we see great changes in the garden. There are swathes of bright yellow in the countryside, a foretaste of the sunny weather to come. Not ...

Cyprus inability to benefit from LNG because of the Vasilikos debacle is proving to be costly European gas prices have tumbled down to levels last seen before the crisis. The ...

Opposition party says not given adequate information before a vote on airport’s contested future The protocol between the north Cyprus and Turkey regarding the handing over of Lefkoniko airport ...

Neutrality used to be a European thing, but it is now in steep decline. If it were an animal, we’d have to declare it an endangered species. For hundreds ...

As Palestinians stand on the brink of extinction, their right to a state of their own is vital, League of Arab States tells ICJ In January the International Court of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Cyprus’ performance in public finances is considered satisfactory, as reflected, among others, in the favourable evaluations of international organizations and rating agencies. As a ...

There was pandemonium in the mother of parliaments at Westminster last Wednesday when the Scottish National Party (SNP) was prevented from having a vote on a call for a ceasefire ...

“I refuse to quit. I feel no need to kiss the ring,” said Nikki Haley defiantly. She was talking about Donald Trump’s ring, of course, because she is predicted ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Euthanasia is legal in some countries, not in others. It costs to have the privilege of deciding when it’s time to die in comfort, slipping ...

Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on ...

Leaving aside the issues of how the doomed LNG project was awarded, the key issue is to recover and complete it Much has been said and written about the debacle ...

Nato joke aside, Trump’s isolationism nothing new in US Donald Trump’s rant in which he encouraged Russia to attack Nato member states failing to comply with their treaty ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In most developed societies, we observe the establishment of institutions that aim at the wider social benefit, through the technocratic assessment of fiscal policies. ...