Opinion

During the presidential election campaign the candidates expressed concerns about youth unemployment, which they all promised to tackle if elected. The prevailing wisdom has always been that the state has ...

THE COMRADES of Akel have never been renowned for their sense of humour, but their description of the council of ministers announced on Monday night by Nikos II was both ...

Ireland and Cyprus have many things in common except one. Whereas membership of the EU helped rather than hindered the peace process in Northern Ireland, the opposite happened in Cyprus. ...

By Serin Quinn Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey’s recent suggestion that Britons should turn to turnips following tomato shortages did not go down as she might have hoped. ...

The European Commission will in the end decide whether the annual rent charged by the Cyprus Sports Federation (KOA) for the use of the recently completed football stadium by the ...

A few days before departing from the finance ministry, Constantinos Petrides, to his credit, spoke out against the government’s proposed compensatory measures for landowners who would be affected by ...

By Steven James Jackson, Marcelle Dawson and Michael Sam Are we in the midst of a wellbeing pandemic? The question may seem curious, even contradictory. But look around, the concept ...

During the handing over ceremony at the interior ministry, the new minister, Constantinos Ioannou, concluded his address thus: “I receive the baton of the interior ministry, with the pledge that ...

There is no doubting that the pandemic significantly affected our ways of communicating, travelling, consuming and interacting. Congested cities like London, New York, Paris, Athens and, to some extent, Nicosia ...

The first political act of a newly-elected president is the selection of the people who will make up the council of ministers, the executive’s decision-making body. The choices made ...

It was no real surprise that the Attorney-general’s office told the long-suffering family of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou that there was not enough evidence to open a criminal case ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Income inequality followed an increasing trajectory at a global level until the mid-1990s and a downward trend in the subsequent period. Over the ...

By Julie Steenhuysen A new strain of bird flu that transmits easily among wild birds has triggered an explosive spread into new corners of the globe, infecting and killing a ...

By Simon Lewis, Patricia Zengerle and Humeyra Pamuk US President Joe Biden dramatically emphasised US backing for Ukraine this week with a trip to the wartorn country, but back home ...

The problem is how to reconcile on one hand respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and on the other Russia’s historical, demographic and security claims By Alper Ali ...

The inauguration ceremony for the eighth president of the republic will take place on Tuesday morning at the legislature, after which Nikos Christodoulides will head to the presidential palace where ...

DISAPPOINTED that the Disy leadership election will not be contested by the good, the bad and the ugly, as had been widely expected, the bad and the ugly having decided ...

By Les Manison In his campaign to become President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides promised that his government would be one of “broad social acceptance” and would represent ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The war in Ukraine is a cataclysmic event in both economic and political terms. It signals the return of great power politics; it marks the weaponization of ...

For the last few months President Anastasiades has been engaging in frenzied legacy-building. He has visited every district, laying foundation stones, cutting ribbons, visiting projects in progress, constantly telling people ...

The French and German ambassadors to Cyprus condemn Russia’s now year-long war of aggression By Salina Grenet-Catalano and Anke Schlimm Today, February 24, 2023, one year has passed since Russia’s ...

A year ago today, Russia sent 200,000 troops into Ukraine in the belief that they would take control of Kyiv within a week or two, overthrow the elected government and install ...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki believes the war in Ukraine, launched a year ago today, has taught us five very important lessons We must do everything to ensure that this ...

By Lee Cheng The Sims is one of the bestselling franchises in gaming history. But unlike most other AAA games (high budget and high-profile games produced by leading publishers), this ...