Who’s really guilty of ‘a very harmful act’?
Cyprus’ official stance on the negotiations has just been undermined by the very man who was supposed to be defending it
A “very harmful act” was the description given by ...
The challenges of the global economic system
It is a system which appears to be compatible with different political perceptions
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The socio-economic challenges of the 21st century are universal in nature ...
Virus exposes EU’s Achilles heel
It was nationally too sensitive to let the European Commission procure vaccines for EU states
To protect from the virus or from the vaccine, that was the question in Europe ...
The Orthodox Church and the far-right
The linkage is grounded in a fear of communism, but why does it still persist?
The Church of Cyprus and the Pancyprian Union of Greek Theologians are demanding that CyBC ...
Afghanistan: same sell-out, different day
In a letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last weekend, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken insisted that Ghani agree to share power with the Taliban insurgents in a transitional ...
East Med gas exports – is Cyprus being left out?
The chances of East Med gas reaching global markets are dwindling. The future is regional
The new year brought with it some interesting developments in the East Med’s energy ...
EU Covid funds must be focused on narrowing inequalities
Government’s draft recovery plan still relying too much on boosting tourism and property investments
By Les Manison
The recent release of national accounts, public finance and employment “estimates” for 2020 ...
Right is on our side
Only one road lies ahead in the talks: to state our positions decently, honestly, openly and responsibly
Lately, I’ve heard the proponents of partition raising their voices and arguing ...
Storm in a royal teacup
But it’s become a perfect storm for the head of the Commonwealth
In their interview with the celebrity TV host Oprah Winfrey Prince Harry and Meghan complained they were ...
The jab and the gab
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
If you are unfamiliar with Irishisms, ‘gab’ is equal to chat. We Gaels are supposed to have ‘the gift of the gab’. If ...
Quarantine Brazil now: Bolsonaro leaves us no choice
If I were World Dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: nobody gets in, nobody comes out. And I would keep it isolated until they (a) arrest and ...
A robust system for checking sources of wealth
Is the badly needed catharsis of the politically exposed persons in sight?
By Christos P Panayiotides
I am one of the three members of a team comprising Sir Christopher Pissarides, ...
Alexei Navalny and Mulberry Street
By Gwynne Dyer
By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next two-and-a-half years in one of the ...
Meaning of ‘political equality’ is crystal clear
By George Koumoullis
The view expressed recently by Disy leader Averof Neophytou, that we must accept political equality in order to secure a solution to the Cyprus problem sparked a ...
‘El Diablo’ is banal but by no means blasphemous
Elena is in love with a wide boy and just needs her mama to tell her what to do
By Alper Ali Riza
‘El Diablo’ is a pop song by ...
Khashoggi and the gang who couldn’t shoot straight
If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn’t be George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven. He’d be a ...
Pipe dreams and net-zero agendas
Israel to link Leviathan gas field to Egyptian LNG plants runs contrary to green plans
By Charles Ellinas
THE Egyptian Petroleum Minister, Tareq El Molla, in a first visit to ...
Averof Neophytou: the voice of reason
His political courage and honesty are qualities in short supply on the Cyprus political scene
I was truly relieved to hear – at last – a political leader courageously raising his voice ...
Very British with a touch of Belgian
The set of ideas attributed to the UK are different from the community power-sharing system that failed miserably in 1963
There is no UK blueprint for a Cyprus settlement. It was ...
The day the Irish mislaid their friend, Cyprus
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Relations between the two small islands that bookend Europe have always been very cordial and good. Language and climate apart, Ireland and Cyprus ...
Pandemic has deepened existing glaring inequalities
In 2019, the average salary of a civil servant was €40,000, for a private sector employee it was €20,000
While the official estimate that real GDP contracted by just over 5 per cent in 2020 ...
Dubai: the sheikh and his daughters
Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, ...
The pitfalls of a ‘loose’ federation
Education is the perfect example of a sector that should fall under a central government
I consider it necessary, by way of introduction, to explain the important difference that exists ...
Economic prospects and pillars of growth
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
With the global economy battling the second wave of the coronavirus, the focus inevitably turns to the short-term management of the biggest socio-economic crisis ...