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“The cold is coming soon,” gloated former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev last June. He predicted that the citizens of the European Union, deprived of the Russian gas that normally supplied ...

Oh well, the president has appointed his cabinet! The favoured few… not much we can do… His personal choice, his personal taste and yes, why not, possibly suggestions made by ...

There is no easy answer to the irregular arrival of refugees on the shores of Europe along the Mediterranean Sea and those of Britain in the Channel, and the UK ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy of Cyprus depicts positive features as regards growth, employment and public finances. However, its economic development model requires radical adaptation in order ...

After lengthy talks that begun in 2004, 193 UN member states agreed on March 4 a legally-binding UN treaty to protect the high seas and marine biodiversity and ensure sustainable use. Welcoming this ...

The importance of the East Med to Chevron’s gas plans was made clear at the company’s ‘2022 4Q Earnings Conference Call’ on January 27 and subsequently at its ‘Investor Presentation’ ...

Ireland and Cyprus have many things in common except one. Whereas membership of the EU helped rather than hindered the peace process in Northern Ireland, the opposite happened in Cyprus. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Income inequality followed an increasing trajectory at a global level until the mid-1990s and a downward trend in the subsequent period. Over the ...

The problem is how to reconcile on one hand respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and on the other Russia’s historical, demographic and security claims By Alper Ali ...

By Les Manison In his campaign to become President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides promised that his government would be one of “broad social acceptance” and would represent ...

The United States has been having “a bit of a floaty-bag problem over its airspace,” as South Africa’s ‘Daily Maverick’ news-site put it. Indeed it has. Four balloons or ...

Cyprus has the resources and potential to generate most of its electricity from RES Cyprus has a new president. A new era is starting and that includes energy. Many serious ...

Disillusioned by the election results and the failure to act on suggestions to root out corruption and find a viable solution to the Cyprus problem Last Sunday, the Greek Cypriot ...

Every newly elected president is entitled to a fair wind without being pounced on by the fourth estate. So congratulations are in order and good luck to Nikos Christodoulides on ...

Here are a few fairly safe predictions for what will happen in Israel in the next year. Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu will not go to jail. The independence of ...

ChatGPT will shake, not break, our lives says devotee Alix Norman, who shares how you can use this innovative new technology Remember when the World Wide Web took off? I ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Fiscal policy traditionally focuses on satisfying certain nominal targets, mainly regarding the fiscal deficit and public debt. An interesting discussion is currently taking place ...

Many of the buildings that collapsed were poorly built to satisfy the greed of shyster developers The cluster of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria last Monday were bound to ...

We may have a unique opportunity to achieve the political climate Cyprus so badly needs In the aftermath of the first round of the presidential elections, many political analysts provided ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE My two islands have much in common. A reputation for hospitality and friendliness, a history of British occupation, civil strife, emigration, a brain and labour drain ...

Precise language and a sense of history would have prevented war in Ukraine In the second episode of the TV programme Putin Vs The West in which western leaders talk ...

By Charles Ellinas Following a joint-letter by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) and Transmission System Operator (TSO) on January 20 requesting suspension of licensing of new residential photovoltaic (PV) installations until ...

The two major parties must work together By Christos Panayiotides I confess that I am not a fan of electoral polls because they disorientate the election process by defocusing the ...

On Tuesday they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday? Now we’re ...