By Alper Ali Riza
The decision of His Honour Judge Theo Karamanis, an associate judge at the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) court in Dhekelia, to retain jurisdiction in the criminal ...
By Christos Panayiotides
In recent years there has been a global political shift towards far-right parties. We have seen this phenomenon in many countries. In France there was Jean-Marie Le ...
By Charles Ellinas
A report on the ‘Digital Quality of Life Index 2022’ ranks Cyprus 37th in the world by overall digital wellbeing, down two places since last year’s edition, ...
The roadmap to resolve the dispute with Israel is welcome but Europe is still phasing out gas
The news this week that the energy ministers of Cyprus and Israel agreed ...
Now is the time for Cypriot diplomacy to make a move with concrete, realistic proposals
The recent decision of the US government to lift the US arms embargo on Cyprus ...
The prospect of a recession in Cyprus is a distinct possibility
According to the latest Eurobarometer by the European Commission seven out of ten Cypriots describe the economic situation of ...
Expanding Nato eastwards was a failure of intelligence as well as statecraft
Compare and Contrast. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine after lying to the whole ...
There’s an election in Italy on Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power.
Giorgia Meloni, the ...
On Monday, about eleven million kilometres from Earth, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will make the first attempt to divert an asteroid from its orbit. But forget ...
THE WAY THINGS ARE
We don’t let our memories, senses and instincts serve us well if we willfully smother them. Natural mental functions, evolved over millennia, can be submerged ...
Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the ‘Terminator’ movies.
An ...
The dawn of social media has led to an alarming loosening of the general rules of what is acceptable in terms of column writing
When in 2015 I decided to seek ...
I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...
Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem
You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...
And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956
Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...
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 ...