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We still lag terribly behind on the use of renewables and battery storage and there’s no firm date for the import of LNG at Vasiliko In a first, and ...

By Christos Panayiotides As you know, Constantinople was captured by the Turkish army on May 29, 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine empire, which lasted over a thousand years. In the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In 2022, the world economy exhibited subdued growth, accompanied by intense inflation pressures and energy security concerns. The continuing pandemic – particularly acute in China – the ...

Farewell to my friend George (Kokos) Demetriades By Alper Ali Riza George Demetriades formerly of Nicosia, latterly of East Finchley, north London, stalwart of the London Greek community, of Gray’...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Since the financial crisis of 2008, the main central banks have allocated more than $25 trillion to support the global economy. The European Central Bank (ECB) ...

According to the Eurobarometer survey of July 2022, 94 per cent of respondents were of the view that corruption was widespread in Cyprus and that political parties were seen as being particularly ...

The rejectionists favouring the partition of Cyprus play into the hands of Turkey Regrettably, the rejectionist parties of Cyprus as well as their leaders are playing into the hands of ...

UK government is wrong to argue health workers cannot go on strike There are many rights in employment and industrial relations law that are not fundamental human rights, but the ...

Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia last Sunday, but ...

Cyprus is lagging behind and will find it difficult to reach targets The most important step in waste management is reducing waste or as the EU puts it, taking measures ...

Where do you look when somebody says: “In the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two combat tours was recorded, time-stamped. I could always ...

With demand up and supplies lower, oil prices are expected to rise If 2022 was a difficult year for energy, 2023 is expected to be even harder as the Russia-Ukraine war continues ...

It was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. The ‘hurricane’ was the explosion of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines in 1991, which boosted 17 million tons of ...

Elections are only a month away. It’s time to take a serious look at our choices In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that the presidential candidate nominated ...

Advisory opinions do not bind states but it is an exercise of soft power The UN General Assembly signalled its decision to challenge Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians the ...

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” wrote Sam Johnson 250 years ago, and the Israeli prime minister has just confirmed ...

And it’s time it published audited accounts The election result of the first round of the ecclesiastical elections was significant in that the voter turnout was striking low at 30 ...

Central to the art of prediction is the presumption of continuity. Predicting change where change is due is easy as is continuity where there is stability. By definition one cannot ...

The wearing of ritual or decorative masks in performances or ceremonies to hide the identity of the wearer By Martin Clark My articles in the Cyprus Mail usually deal with ...

The energy market was turned on its head; 2023 could bring further turmoil By Charles Ellinas What a year it was. 2022 was seismic in terms of global energy. Everything was turned ...

Between the government’s main focus being more and better paid public employees and banks’ passiveness and single-mindedness the economy only works for the few President Nicos Anastasiades, Minister of ...

By Gwynne Dyer Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now! I was idly scanning the website ...

Recently, the promised details on the Cyprus problem of Nikos Christodoulides’ election manifesto were made public with great fanfare. I have carefully read the relevant text of some 2,000 words three ...

Historians will judge 2022 a momentous year. If when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 it heralded the end of history, by that logic Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ushered in ...