Schools and god’s rules
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
There’s controversy in the UK about women on a night out whose drinks were ‘spiked’ or who were injected with drugs. ...
Afghans will starve if West refuses to release funds
The first snow of the winter will reach Kabul any day now, and the death rate will start to climb: mostly children, at first, but it will not really be ...
East Med energy – change of direction?
COP26 is providing the opportunity to redefine how we get to net zero without drama
At a meeting last week at the European Commission’s (EC) EAAS I was asked ...
Hypersonic missiles: a needless complication
“I saw in some of the newspapers they used the term ‘Sputnik moment’,” said general Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I don’t know if ...
The children of a different god
It’s time to change the rules over granting Cyprus citizenship
In contrast to paragraphs 1 to 5 of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which address the issue of the deportation ...
Saving our fragile planet requires the finest levels of statecraft
About 65 million years ago, before God created mankind, planet Earth was dominated by dinosaurs. Children love them as toys, but it is interesting in these climate change times to notice ...
The time may have passed to exploit Cyprus’ gas
When the gas discoveries were first made, the prevailing economic and political conditions were substantially different
I assume that you have all heard about the EU’s plans to create ...
Looking for the pain threshold: why COP26 won’t deliver
“The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7°C of heating,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “There is a high risk of failure of COP26.” That’s the global ...
Pancyprian children have Cypriot nationality at birth
There are rights and obligations, and you can’t invoke rights but eschew obligations
If called upon to rule on the matter, no European institution would buy the argument that ...
Footing the ball and the bills
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Maari and Maria are very different: Maari is still as flamboyant in manner and mode as she was in the 60s, Maria ...
Theklia and Christos are natural-born Cypriot citizens
The plight of Theklia and Christos two mixed heritage children refused Cypriot ID cards is too close to home and personally too close to the bone to ignore.
It was ...
Poland is wrong to move goal posts
The primacy of the EU’s legal system over the laws and constitutions of member states is necessary for the union to exist
By Alper Ali Riza
The spat between ...
Political equality is important for all of us
The system would protect both communities
By Christos P Panayiotides
Before attempting to explain why the issue of political equality is important for the Turkish Cypriots, but also for the ...
‘Amateur’ governments dealing with regional climate crisis
More concern about next elections than worrying about next 30 years
By Charles Ellinas
There is a huge gap between what we need to do about climate change in the region ...
Polexit: Poland playing a very risky game of chicken with the EU
It’s possible that the tide which brought hard-right populist governments to power in a number of Central European countries is starting to go out again.
In the Czech Republic, ...
Three cheers for the Pandora Papers
The people with the power to combat corruption and collusion are the very ones who benefit from perpetuating them
The “Pandora Papers” are a cooperative international project of a large ...
Unprofitable Cypriot banks need to elevate productive lending and reduce NPL sales
By Les Manison
Comparative data for 2021Q2 published by the ECB under its Single Supervisory Mechanism, reveal that the three largest Cypriot banks performed poorly relative to most of their ...
UK cheating foreigners
Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...
The word, the flesh and the devil
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
In 2008, Professor KC Nicolaou, multi-awarded, Karavas-born Cypriot-American, co-authored with Tamsyn Montagnon, a thoughtfully laid out book Molecules that changed the world. Nicolaou ...
It’s time to replace the guarantor powers
Britain, Greece and Turkey have all failed in their assigned roles
When the Republic of Cyprus was born in 1960, she was given three “god-mothers” – Britain, Greece and Turkey – who were ...
No easy answers to the energy crisis
Europe is at fault for not addressing low gas storage levels early-on
The energy crisis rumbles-on with no easy answers emerging to bring it under control. Europe’s leaders met ...
Volcanoes, tsunamis and risk, how worried should we be?
‘Don’t bother your pretty head about it’ is the prevailing media take on the risk of the volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Canary Islands turning into a ...
A storm in a coffee cup
I don’t care what people call their national coffee so long as it tastes like Turkish coffee
Apologies to Patroclos for encroaching on coffeeshop territory. I’ve been meaning ...
Destroy the whistle-blowers!
A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world’s intelligence services – and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a ...