Opinion

The intervention of the government in the labour market will not end with the change in the calculation of the cost of living allowance (CoLA), which was finally agreed last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

The US has developed a comprehensive energy policy that includes southeast Europe and the Mediterranean. This was the subject at the two-day high level meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic ...

By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti From fuller lips to BBLs (Brazilian Butt Lifts), patients seek the perfect celebrity/influencer-inspired look. However, when reality falls short of expectations, the red-carpet ...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, several European countries – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain – faced high public debt, weak economic growth and fragile banking sectors. These vulnerabilities led to ...

My wife bought a house in Avgorou in 2011. It was paid for in full; she has the receipts. The contract was deposited with the Land Registry, and in 2016 she applied ...

I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of ...

I read with great interest the comprehensive article on how many vehicles were registered in Cyprus. The aspect I’d really be interested in how many vehicles were scrapped or ...

By Euripides L Evriviades When Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his emblematic work The Prince in 1513, he was dissecting the raw mechanics of realpolitik in an age of fragile states, restless rulers ...

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...

PREZNIKONE appears to be on a mission to prove to the few remaining idiots that still think there is a hint of honesty in what he says are making a ...

The visit of Tufan Erhurman, the newly elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots, to Ankara on Thursday for his eagerly awaited meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan must have disappointed all ...

There was another twist to the saga of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) on Wednesday at the third intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece in Athens, which, apart from the ...

As if to underline its skill at presentation and marketing, the government has repeatedly referred to its proposed reform of the tax regime as a ‘flagship project’ and as ‘emblematic ...

Akel, which has raised the alarm on several occasions recently about the property purchases by third country nationals, has submitted two bills to the legislature aimed at restricting these transactions. ...

I’ve known a man for years, in great shape, great life, his own home, children settled, housed, grandchildren highly educated, he sailed through life. Yet he rattles on about ...

The government should take note of the warning issued by president of the Fiscal Council, Michalis Persianis, in the preface of the council’s activity report for 2024. Although these were ‘...

When it comes to energy projects, the credibility rating of Cyprus governments is depressingly low. If there is one department in which there has been real continuity between the Anastasiades ...

Are Cypriots sleepwalking into another tragedy, one that could match or even exceed those of 1963–64 and 1974, which resulted in so many deaths, displacements and destitution? In the south of the ...

I would like to respond to some points of the article ‘What do the Greek Cypriots do now?’ by Alper Ali Raza, CM regular columnist, dated 26.10.2025, which refer to Cyprus. ...

My wife bought a house in Avgorou in 2011. It was paid for in full; she has the receipts. The contract was deposited with the Land Registry, and in 2016 she applied ...

By Flora Alexandrou The Cypriot government continues to prioritise image over substance, relying on symbolic gestures to suggest progress while advancing at a crawl on real reform in gender equality. ...

By Theo Theophanous and Takis Christodoulou We write as two former politicians of the Cyprus diaspora, one from Australia, one from South Africa, because we passionately believe in a united ...

The Cyprus government is generating large surpluses and accumulating deposits at banks reaching €6.8 billion at the end of September 2025.  And Cyprus banks held cash and cash balances totaling €19.6 billion or ...