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The oil ban may not bring the pain to Russia that Brussels expects. The losers are the consumers The EU finally agreed on Thursday to impose a ban on seaborne ...

The governors of Cyprus have never promoted a comprehensive and viable plan of peaceful coexistence and mutual support of Greek and Turkish Cypriots I am convinced that in a well-structured, ...

Three cheers for the monarch on her platinum jubilee but sustained boos for her first minister Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee this weekend is a good time to talk about ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou There are few who can describe human remains with the eloquence of Irish Nobel poet Seamus Heaney. Grauballe Man is too long ...

‘What happens in Davos stays in Davos’, they say – or at least it should stay there, because some foolish things are said at the ‘World Economic Forum’, the annual conclave ...

Will style or sincerity prove to be the vital thing when it is time to vote? It used to be said of the Conservative party in England that it was ...

Time for presidential candidates to tell us more than what their dreams are The setting of the stage for the forthcoming presidential elections is slowly being completed. Fortunately, there is ...

“Well, my dear, we didn’t know where to look. The old codger was getting away with it again, fielding the questions like a man only nine-tenths of his age, ...

The EU’s €210bn plan is far-reaching but Cyprus is woefully behind In addition to its plan to stop using Russian oil, the EU has gone further, trying to grasp ...

Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and Russia’s of Ukraine are not the same With regard to my article of last Sunday, while many people have contacted me to congratulate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will almost certainly not be in power three years from now. The war he foolishly began in Ukraine has fatally undermined his political credibility among the ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has breathed new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Collective self-defence under Nato’s umbrella protects Europe and North America from shared enemies in ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I know religious people who aren’t spiritual and spiritual people who spurn organised religion. Many ancient myths and beliefs tell of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Turkish economy has repeatedly been described as totally directed by President Erdogan’s inner circle. Economic decisions which are obviously political, such as ...

The public response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compares unfavourably with the rest of the EU I was lucky in that I was born in 1945 at the end of ...

The government and banks issue deceptive statements and statistics and the media blindly report them without question By Les Manison According to Reporters Without Borders, Cyprus ranks 69th on the “...

Both the US and Russia have come unstuck on the legal differences between preventive and pre-emptive self-defence By Alper Ali Riza In his speech on Victory Day over Nazi Germany ...

Four months ago Jonathan Powell warned that the ‘Good Friday’ agreement of 1998 that ended 30 years of killing in Northern Ireland was at risk. “What worries me is the casual political ...

Cyprus missed the opportunities it had in 2013 to develop its own gas and is now paying the price As Europe imposes more and more sanctions to reduce and eventually stop ...

We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops ‘Orcs’ even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came ...

In theory, Turkish Cypriots should be able to vote in the Republic’s presidential elections There is election fever in the air in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). Candidates are ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou All round us, human progress is rapidly evolving. Still, the rich get richer, and the poor get ever poorer when a mix ...

Two months ago, when Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, every message from Washington or Nato about the invasion included a prominent passage saying what the western alliance would not ...

It is not enough for candidates to promise change, they must say what this is and how it will be achieved I confess I do not ‘belong’ to anyone. Neither ...