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Hardly ever has a head of state or government in the Western world experienced the kind of political trauma that President Trump has been going through. On occasions, it has ...

An electoral college adapted to Cyprus would allow a political dynamic between Greek and Turkish Cypriots to develop The UN Secretary-General complained there is no agreement on the model for ...

THE WAYS THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I met Dub in a store before Christmas, she on the high-price aisle, me poking through the discount bargains opposite. Her hyacinth ...

Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as many lives as possible in an emergency where there are not enough ...

The mass media will ensure the talks fail A modern society without mass communications is inconceivable. Television, newspapers, radio and the internet are the main sources of information the world ...

‘Lockdown losses have cost Lebanon 20 per cent of its current GDP’ Lebanon has just entered its fourth Covid-19 lockdown since the pandemic began. Skyrocketing numbers have forced the Lebanese government ...

Disy’s deputy chairman has some explaining to do over his recent opposition to a federation An article written by Harris Georgiades, Disy’s deputy chairman, entitled ‘The new realism’ ...

By Les Manison The state budget is the main instrument for allocating resources geared to meet the government’s policy objectives and reforms. And with the devastating impact of the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The Agreement for Trade and Cooperation between the EU and the UK was achieved virtually at the last moment after difficult negotiations. It mainly ...

If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the ‘crisis of American democracy’ and what it means for the world, I’m going to retch. The last straw ...

The storming of Capitol Hill in Washington on January 6, 2021 was no storming of the Bastille of 1789. It was no storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd in 1917 either. It changed ...

This is what really matters Christos P. Panayiotides, CM Regular Columnist It is a fact that most Cypriot politicians have a legal background. Therefore, it is not surprising that they ...

Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides We have recently written about global debt and the high levels of government borrowing, accumulated as a response to the global pandemic and aided by ...

The long and winding road, as the Beatles song says, began a long-long time ago By Alper Ali Riza URSULA Von Der Leyen, the European Commission President, found the right ...

Cyprus will find itself under pressure from the EU and the US to find a path out of the Cyprus problem swamp The memories of 2020 on global energy will be ...