Opinion

By Maria Demertzis In its spring 2023 inflation forecasts, issued on May 15, the European Commission predicted that euro-area inflation this year will be 5.8 per cent, a little higher than anticipated in ...

By James Oliphant and Jason Lange If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter ...

By Gwynne Dyer Let us suppose that the current Russian regime collapses, with or without a Ukrainian military victory to give it a final shove. Who would be the least ...

The new targets will impact all energy sectors, including transport, heating and shipping, in addition to electricity By Charles Ellinas EU’s gas policies are embodied in its RePwerEU strategy: ...

The EU has claimed that halloumi/hellim production will form a ‘mini-reunification laboratory’. There is no sign of that yet By Fahri Zihni The much loved hellim/halloumi is perhaps ...

The fuss in the British press over the interior minister was a storm in a teacup By Alper Ali Riza As every observer of corruption in public life knows, it ...

ANGELA MERKEL was declared possible candidate for the role of special envoy of the EU by all the Cyprus and Greece news websites, after Prez Nik II’s visit to ...

Ten years have passed since the bailout, which devastated the economy, and seven have passed since the country exited the assistance programme that was imposed by the international lenders. Although ...

The allegations of corruption in Cyprus football surface every once in a while, triggering a surge of critical articles in the media and indignant comments by politicians. Nothing is ever ...

One of the tenets of perfect competition, in economic theory, is that consumers have perfect or full information. Of course, the model of perfect competition exists only in theory, but ...

By Nathan Abrams A quarter of a century ago, on May 14, 1998, the final episode of Seinfeld was broadcast, ending one of the most significant sitcoms of all time after nine ...

After the inexplicable level of deference President Nikos Christodoulides showed to the auditor-general over government appointments it was expected that he would not take a stand in the public row ...

It has been a week since the Eurovision Song Contest, but the dust has not settled after the Greek jury awarded the Cyprus entry only 4 points, causing a bit of ...

Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last week when Arab states readmitted Syria to the Arab League, signaling to ...

It would have been a big surprise if President Christodoulides had gone to his first Pasydy conference not bearing gifts. Pandering to the civil servants at their annual conference is ...

The Sunday before last, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced, out of the blue, that natural gas would be sent from Israel’s gas fields by pipeline to Cyprus, ...

As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies ...

The euro is the second largest reserve currency, but so far the dollar still reigns supreme By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Since the end of World War II, the ...

By Gwynne Dyer I was one of five children – not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time – and there was one year when we allegedly beat ...

By Charles Barthold French president Emmanuel Macron is facing a political crisis unprecedented in contemporary times. Pierre Rosanvallon, one of the country’s most influential political theorists (and a man ...

The idea that assisting in the death of the terminally ill is tantamount to murder is morally repugnant Crime and punishment is about prohibited intentional acts that deserve to be ...

LAST Sunday’s Diko conference turned into a love-in, party leader Junior exercising zero restraint in his public adulation of his new political idol – Prez Nik II. “If you did ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides, last Wednesday, at the House legal affairs committee presented the bill on Legal Service of the Republic, which will give complete autonomy and independence to the service. ...

Elzbieta Witek, the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, who visited Cyprus this week, said that the ongoing war in Ukraine raises a big security issue for ...