CM Regular Columnist

by Richard Dickenson My father, whose work involved a good deal of public speaking, gave me this week’s title as the best possible advice for the task. He also ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Over the last decades, the shift in favour of the digital economy has been accelerating. The utilisation of software systems has enhanced the ability ...

Important to regain the support of international opinion on the Cyprus problem Before saying anything else, I wish to emphatically state that my goal and intention is to strengthen the ...

An article with the innocuous title ‘Reframing incentives for climate policy action’ slipped out in the scientific journal Nature Energy three weeks ago and got very little attention, presumably because ...

A look at the Kyle Rittenhouse trial In some states in the US when you leave home you check you have not forgotten your house keys, your wallet, your mobile, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Working together FW de Klerk, who once ruled South Africa, is no more. Cancer claimed him earlier this month but not before ...

By Les Manison The autumn 2021 forecasts of the European Commission for Greece and Cyprus are excessively optimistic particularly on inflation rates and the government finances. In making these fanciful forecasts ...

After COP26, this year set to mark first time in history that renewable power will be the largest area of energy investment By Charles Ellinas The COP26 climate summit in ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides Natural persons – the salaried, pensioners and self-employed – whose total gross income last year exceeded €19,500 are obliged to file their annual tax return for 2020 by November 30 to ...

By Alper Ali Riza Corruption, what corruption? Britain is not a corrupt country was Boris Johnson’s reply to criticism that the government manipulated its huge parliamentary majority to save ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow constitutes a crucial event for mankind. Despite the noticeable progress achieved in some areas, ...

An international body running ports and airports in the north could end its isolation and help conditions for a solution One of the basic mistakes that have been consistently committed – ...

When the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 it surrendered to the EU her sovereign right to control its borders in refugee claims. A surrender of so much sovereignty ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Economic inequality has always attracted attention because of its significant economic and political implications. The most widely accepted method to measure economic inequality is ...

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 ...