Opinion

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides It is generally acknowledged that the ultimate objective of governments should be to improve the welfare of their citizens. Traditionally, the GDP per capita, ...

The prophets of doom and the Project Fear salesmen, who had mercifully disappeared from view for about a month, made a comeback in the last week, doing their best to ...

News that the UK government decided to keep Cyprus on its amber list dashed the hopes of the tourism industry for a boost to business in July. Cyprus’ low positivity ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis central banks substantially lowered interest rates to support the recovery of their economies. In fact, the ECB by September 2015 had reduced its ...

President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...

Health minister, Constantinos Ioannou may be on his way out, but he has not given up his crusade to have the whole population of Cyprus vaccinated. On a visit to ...

As was widely expected, the latest visit by the UN secretary-general’s envoy, Jane Holl Lute, came to nothing. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, did not budge from his ...

One thing that has become obvious after eight years of the Anastasiades administration is that the president does not like changing his ministers or, as some like to say, freshening ...

At the recent G7 summit, US president Joe Biden promised to distribute 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines free to the poorer countries by the middle of next year. That’s ...

Systemic corruption poisons values, erodes rule of law, distorts the market, discourages investment and productivity and reduces standard of living Kleptocracy is a form of government in which the leaders, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent decades, the macroeconomic management of sovereign economies has become more complex due to a number of factors, including the globalisation of trade ...

There are simply too many diverging aims and electoral and legislative weaknesses for it to work There are many who consistently argue that a “government of national unity” will help ...

One of the biggest achievements of the unions of the public sector, over the years, has been the championing of the mediocre, responsibility-fearing and unproductive workers. They have done this ...

YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prez Nik after the week he has just had. The number of public rejections he suffered would have forced lesser men to go into hiding ...

The European Championship 2020 is being played in 2021 for obvious reasons but better late than never. They did not augur well when Christian Eriksen of Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest in ...

After Elam received the fourth highest number of votes in May’s parliamentary elections and secured four seats, there have been countless articles bemoaning the rise of the extreme right ...

Anger at the decision of the attorney-general not to prosecute the 15 policemen over their apparent failure to investigate the disappearance of foreign women that were subsequently discovered to have been ...

President Joe Biden on his first foreign foray sought to cast Russia not as a direct competitor to the United States but as a bit player in a world where ...

At around the time of the 2004 referendum on the Annan Plan, Nicos Anastasiades, as Disy leader wrote to the European Commission to report then President Tassos Papadopoulos for the way ...

By Paolo Gentiloni Global crises often pave the way for major reforms. The agreements that regulate the monetary system and global trade were reached in the wake of the Second ...

By Richard Dickenson This totally imaginary cat sets a puzzle, a mind game really, for those interested in Quantum Physics (QP), my own pet interest. The puzzle takes the form ...

In the end, President Anastasiades’ initiative to set up a government of broader acceptance proved a non-starter. With the exception of the Disy chief the other six leaders he met ...