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By George M. Georgiou and Les Manison The financial crisis of 2007–2009, referred to as the Great Recession, which afflicted most of the advanced capitalist economies and beyond, triggered a debate ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Considering its dominant position but also the departure of current chancellor Angela Merkel, a politician of strong international standing, the forthcoming elections in Germany ...

The likelihood of seeing meaningful capital statements published in Cyprus is slim On Monday, September 13, the statements of wealth of members of parliament elected in May were uploaded onto the ...

The new cabinet does not have the intellectual and political heavyweights that Britain needs to carve out her new role after Brexit. Government reshuffles in Britain are as fascinating as ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou My Irish cousin Thomas is nearly a century old and dementia has laid claim to his lively, enquiring brain. Archaeology was a ...

Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit’, often by measures like compulsory sterilisation or, in the case of the ...

Are we finally going to make it big? Sadly no With ExxonMobil planning to drill an appraisal well before the end of the year and following political agreements in Egypt ...

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event sponsored by Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos in cooperation with the ...

What hope is there if cannot even bear to teach the history, culture and language of the other community Excising references to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, from ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Changed the world forever’ is the most hackneyed phrase in journalism, and if you can get through this week (the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks) without hearing ...

The first and most important lesson from Akis Tzohatzopoulos’ life is that power corrupts By Christos P Panayiotides On August 27, Akis Tzohatzopoulos passed away, at the age of 82. He was ...

Afghanistan withdrawal has strengthened rather than ended the West’s delusional thinking that led to the misbegotten adventure in the first place By Gwynne Dyer A man is sitting in ...

In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection. Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I needed a break from faithfully following the (literal) blood and guts of The Good Doctor so I clicked onto a series set ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

But revoking Cyprus passports of Turkish Cypriots was not the answer In a recent article of mine, I made the following important points concerning the 1974 Turkish military intervention: The 1974 coup, ...

Neither RoC nor EU citizenship is in the gift of the government of the RoC to give or withhold The decision of President Anastasiades to weaponise Republic of Cyprus passports ...

Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that have been invaded by the United States. But they have failed everywhere else, ...

Elif Shafak’s latest novel focuses on Cypriot identity Elif Shafak is Turkish novelist who writes in English and Turkish and lives in London where she is free to express ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Flames and floods: a world dragging its heels on climate change is finally admitting something really serious is afoot. Once, when young ...

There are 150 new coal-fired plants under construction or already approved and funded in the world, so you can’t really say that we are taking global warming seriously yet. But ...

All the talk of tackling corruption in the lead up to May’s election has fallen silent The issue of corruption dominated the political scene during the long parliamentary pre-election ...

The Mediterranean will be particularly affected with higher summer temperatures, drought and fires says IPCC report The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a landmark report on ...

There’s something wrong when the street names of great philhellenes are replaced with those of lesser mortals When it comes to naming streets, we would expect them given in ...