THE WAY THIINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Netflix viewers can watch The Byzantine Cat and Inside the Mind of a Cat, a 00s film, and a documentary. Set on ...
As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by ...
The EU has finally woken-up to the seriousness of the problem
High energy prices are here to stay for many years to come. Last week, Shell’s CEO, Ben van ...
Cyprus borrowed heavily with low-cost bond issues to finance their excessive current expenditures
Economic and financial crises in the euro area are fast developing. With supply-side problems most strikingly reflected ...
But there is no agreement on how to get there: an open letter to President Anastasiades
I have carefully read your speech at the meeting of the Limassol Reserve Officers ...
It was Yeltsin that oversaw the break-up of the Soviet Union
The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good time to reset the West’s relationship with Russia. There is ...
It’s significant, but serious challenges remain
With the world gripped by an ever-deteriorating energy crisis, with gas supplies and prices playing a central role, the discovery of a new ...
Whoever is elected as archbishop is the church’s affair, but likewise it should not meddle with the state
It is known that the Archbishop Chrysostomos has reached the age ...
Rail staff, dockers, rubbish collectors, postal workers and now even criminal barristers are on strike or will be going on strike in Brexit Britain. If higher pay is not forthcoming ...
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Four Cypriots graced an OPAP sponsored supplement in the Sunday Mail on July 31. Renowned and respected, they have brought credit to Cyprus.
...
Last Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that ...
In the past, I believed that the malaise of Cyprus was primarily caused by the incompetence and frivolousness of its leaders. Recently however, I have embarked on a process of ...
And the courts can do something about it
Greed is the unacceptable face of capitalism, and profiteering in times of pestilence and war a most loathsome and wicked kind of ...
It’s only one year since the fall of Kabul last August 15 and everybody in the countries that sent troops to Afghanistan has already forgotten about it (apart from journalists ...
It is ludicrous for the government to claim that it does not have the resources to meet the needs of vulnerable households
Accounts and behaviour of the government, banks and ...
Jordanian-born Gabriel Dahabreh is one of the top thoracic surgeons in Europe. Since 2001, he has been serving as the director of the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Athens Medical Centre. ...
A wind of change is blowing through the museums of Europe
Just as the English think of Shakespeare as their very own, despite his universal appeal, the Greeks think the ...
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Recent developments suggest that the US and the EU are moving towards stagflation, that is the coexistence of inflation and low economic growth, with ...
At a massive cost to us all – except the oil companies
“I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: that this ...
In the last paragraph of my article, published in the Cyprus Mail and in Alithia, on October 4, 2017, I wrote: “I want to believe that the Greek foreign minister understands that ...
Very few politicians seem to grasp the magnitude of the coming crisis, its impact and its costs
Europe’s energy security is on a knife edge. The concern that there ...
You have probably already read – some of you have probably already studied – the work of the twelve-member Eastern Mediterranean Think Tank, which constitutes a coherent and comprehensive proposal for the ...
Women’s football is exciting on its own merits
In 1966 the Labour party’s Harold Wilson was British prime minister, the Americans were engaged in a war in Vietnam, the ...