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The future of Varosha is out of the government’s control The story of the fenced-off part of Famagusta highlights the enormous incompetence and lack of foresight by Greek Cypriot ...

The most blatant and revealing crisis of democracy plaguing our own country and its natives was unwittingly formulated by the UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who last week stepped ...

From Covid hypocrisy at the very top of government to a longed-for win over Germany Last week was an extraordinary week in England even in these extraordinary times. On Sunday ...

Every legislative act has four related but distinct dimensions Despite the visible risk of boring you, I beg you to allow me to revert on the subject of my last ...

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis central banks substantially lowered interest rates to support the recovery of their economies. In fact, the ECB by September 2015 had reduced its ...

At the recent G7 summit, US president Joe Biden promised to distribute 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines free to the poorer countries by the middle of next year. That’s ...

Systemic corruption poisons values, erodes rule of law, distorts the market, discourages investment and productivity and reduces standard of living Kleptocracy is a form of government in which the leaders, ...

There are simply too many diverging aims and electoral and legislative weaknesses for it to work There are many who consistently argue that a “government of national unity” will help ...

The European Championship 2020 is being played in 2021 for obvious reasons but better late than never. They did not augur well when Christian Eriksen of Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest in ...

With Phoenician blood in their veins, Cypriots should be particularly wary of falling into the digital currency trap By Christos P. Panayiotides I have little doubt that part of the ...

The hope and/or fear that ‘aliens are among us’ had its heyday in the 1950s but is making a comeback By Gwynne Dyer The silly season has come early ...

June is developing into a crucial month for the East Med and its geopolitics involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus By Charles Ellinas At a recent Senate hearing, US Secretary of ...

Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal is a misnomer. A passport is ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Bee Gees, as denigrated as they were loved, wrote a song called ‘Words’ a line of which goes, ‘Talk in everlasting ...

It’s not Bretton Woods, but it’s a start. The decision by the finance ministers of the G7 countries to create a global minimum tax rate on corporate profits ...

Hourly pay for managers is over five times more than for elementary workers – the highest ratio in the EU. The much-heralded Cyprus Tomorrow plan must narrow that gap It is ...

The Communist party is hopelessly out of touch and has proved itself untrustworthy The fall in the share of votes secured by Akel in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections has ...

Our electoral system may be absurd, but last Sunday’s elections secured some very interesting results In a nutshell: in the five-year period since the previous round of parliamentary elections ...

It was Labour’s prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase, a week is a long time in politics. He was UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and then again ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki condemned the “hijacking” of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday, accusing him of a “reprehensible act of ...

It was a week of reckoning for the oil and gas industry By Charles Ellinas The oil and gas sector was shaken this past week. There were some monumental developments ...