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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 ...

Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third highest in all of Africa’s fifty countries, just behind Morocco and South Africa. Literacy is 97 ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou During the 80s one of the most popular programmes on CyBC radio was Request Time with John Vickers in English and Vicky ...

Gaps between private and public workers as well as between generations grow ever wider By Les Manison Labour, particularly private sector employees, and the young generation have suffered badly under ...

House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...

‘This winter in Europe will be very, very difficult’ These will probably be the most important elections Cyprus has had for a long time. And it is not just the ...

By Christos P Panayiotides The onus of proof of the presidential candidates that they mean business when they claim that they are determined to reunite Cyprus and to combat corruption ...

Rishi Sunak should replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister By Alper Ali Riza It is often wrongly assumed that the political left is the natural home of liberated women, ...