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‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.’ This quote often attributed to Lenin, may capture the moment. It is now a little more than ...

It’s taking Donald Trump a little longer than the 24 hours he said he would need to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, but his 90-minute phone call with Vladimir ...

Much of the discussion at the FT’s International Energy Policy Forum in Brussels earlier this month applied to Cyprus as well as other areas of the world. The event ...

Unfortunately, make believe about 60 being the new 70, and 50 being the new 60, etc, just doesn’t work after a while. When the body starts sending us stern messages about its malfunction, ...

Momentous events are taking place in world affairs. America is finally breaking loose of its European chains. Despite being the most powerful country in the world, it remained a frontier ...

I’m very cross with myself. My last two articles were about Trump saying he might invade Greenland, and then about Trump declaring that he would annex Canada (but no ...

Indonesia’s recent accession to the Brics coalition highlights the ongoing and ambitious efforts of its member countries to create a rival to the G7, the alliance of the world’...

Walking back statements the Trump makes as president is keeping the White House busy How to judge US President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle the Palestinians of Gaza and ...

Globalisation has been a dominant feature of the socio-economic developments of recent decades. Now, it has been showing signs of de-escalation. For some time now, the view that the unfettered ...

“Drill, baby, drill”, exulted the new President of the World (American branch), but he will find that the oil and gas industry isn’t listening. As Darren Woods, CEO of ...

When devising the executive branch of government in 1789 the founding fathers of the American constitution were anxious to avoid creating an all-powerful monarch like the English king from whom they ...

In the 80 hours between Wednesday, January 15, when the Gaza ceasefire agreement was announced, and Sunday, January 19, when it went into effect, Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 123 Palestinians ...

According to the ministry of energy the government is close to approving Chevron’s development plan (FDP) for the Aphrodite gas-field, centered around exports to Egypt using a subsea pipeline, ...

So why are the Israelis still bombing Gaza? US foreign minister Anthony Blinken was first on the Gaza ceasefire bandwagon last week. Israel and Hamas are right on the brink ...

Natural gas prices in Europe have been rising for most of 2024, as a result of increasing gas demand, and are still rising, especially in the aftermath of the ending of ...

New Year is when we do the accounts for the year, and the bad news always gets top billing: how many wars are going on, how big were the natural ...

December 31st; the last day of the year, and you’re feeling optimistic about the year ahead. You make a bold resolution: “This year, I’m going to exercise regularly ...

The surrender of sovereignty over the whole of Cyprus is an existential obstacle that no Greek Cypriot leader could surmount In his traditional Christmas homily Archbishop Georgios of Cyprus expressed ...

Six months ago, at the end of Iran’s presidential election, I finished an article by speculating that the long-lived theocratic dictatorship in Iran may be a lot closer to ...

Last month, we threw away more than 18 gigawatt hours of solar power – enough to power the average Cypriot household for nearly 2,000 years. This process, referred to as ‘curtailment’, is where ...

As the old year gives way to the new and a new American president is about to come to power with a mandate to make America great again (MAGA) it ...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

Cyprus’ credit rating was recently upgraded from Baa2 to A3 by Moody’s. The double upgrade reflects, firstly, the improvement in the country’s fiscal indicators. Public debt has fallen ...

By taking fixed deposits at the second lowest interest rate in the euro area at an  average of 1.8 per cent and lending part of these funds at the third highest ...