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Poor Maria Angela Holguin has once again been dragged into the political minefield that is Cyprus, reappointed as the UN secretary-general’s (UNSG) personal envoy. There was hesitation in announcing ...

There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan. Both confrontations were set off by horrendously cruel mass ...

In Cyprus the financial crisis of 2012-13 resulted in a loss of wealth for many households owing to the “deposit haircut” and the collapse of prices of bank shares and ...

There were seagulls loitering by the tin chimney at the Vatican as it billowed white smoke heralding the election of Pope Leo XIV the first all-American pope, evocative of land ...

What happened in Spain and Portugal on April 28 brought home how insecure our energy systems have become. For about 20 hours Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France experienced a widespread ...

Culture is a crucial, but underestimated, factor in socio-economic progress. It influences the perceptions of national authorities and citizens and defines their approach to addressing challenges and interactions with the ...

The dilemma that Europe (and this includes the UK) would have to choose between the world’s two largest economic giants would have seemed preposterous a few months ago. Until ...

Malta and the EU’s definitive ruling on golden passports In a trenchant judgement on April 29, 2025 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the ...

Trade is structural and its implications for policy and markets alike are pervasive, especially when deficits have been persistent and accumulating for a long time. Currencies and trade imbalances are ...

Greek American David Sedaris is an inimitable raconteur, an irreverent and brilliant wit whose jokes can be blunt, but never tainted with coarseness or discrimination. He’s gay, happy in ...

I read with interest, and eventual dismay, the Easter article of President Nikos Christodoulides in Kathimerini newspaper where he enthused about his recent visit to the US and the miracle ...

Films highlight the doctrinaire versus the avant-garde and the machinations behind becoming pope What was unique about Pope Francis who died last Monday was not that he was the first ...

ALTHOUGH the adoption of an aggressive policy of imposing high tariffs by the United States featured prominently in President Trump’s campaign agenda, the scope of the actual measures has ...

In the UK, where there is no ban on the hijab for girls and women in public institutions including schools, we see an increasing number of successful, popular and respected ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

In 2024 Cyprus banks continued to amass very large profits. However, their self-serving behaviour, particularly in conduct of interest rate and lending policies, has meant that banks fell far short in ...

On Wednesday five justices of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) decided that a woman is a person born biologically female. The judgement is long and technical and the UKSC was ...

The headscarf controversy in Turkish Cypriot schools after a regulation governing school dress was changed to authorise schoolgirls to cover their heads raises human rights issues the European Court of ...

I’m Irish, love my country and my culture. My father’s name is described as Normo-Celtic, my sister, older by 16 years, always told me I had a retrousse nose, ...

Even though energy commodities – oil, natural gas and refined products – were largely spared collateral fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Liberation Day’, the new tariffs have pushed oil ...

The ongoing discussion on the unfreezing of first-time appointments in the public sector, including local authorities, is crucial, taking into account the size of the public payroll and its broader ...

Government policies in allocating resources implicitly promote consumerism, mass tourism and property development as the key drivers of economic growth President Nikos Christodoulides and the Finance Minister Makis Keravnos claim ...

Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Rally (RN) candidate for president of France in 2027, was banned from holding public office for five years last week after she was found guilty ...

Maybe it was the fact that we were coming up on the tenth anniversary of the treaty Donald Trump destroyed that prompted him to start issuing threats to Iran again. ...