Opinion

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 ...

Speaking on state radio on Friday morning about the US and UK sanctions, economics professor Marios Zachariades made a very valid point. He said there was either compliance or non-compliance ...

In the last year and a half of his presidency, Nicos Anastasiades had made the appointment of a special envoy by the UN Secretary-General his main Cyprus problem objective. He ...

By Fernando Valladares Climate change is a global problem. Its origin is less so, however, because we do not all contribute equally: the countries that suffer the most from the ...

When sanctions were imposed on two Cypriot companies that had been providing legal and administrative services to Russian oligarchs, a month ago, banks immediately froze all the accounts linked to ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Weight is a constant in the lives of people who don’t conform to what experts and beauty addicts maintain is the correct number of kilos. ...

There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the murderous Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended twelve years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission ...

When a president messes up an appointment of a state official, as Nicos Anastasiades had done in the case of the president of the commission for the protection of competition, ...

An ongoing joke at the Eurovision Song Contest was that when marks were given out by each country, it was a near certainty that Cyprus would give Greece’s song ‘...

Realisation of the EuroAsia Interconnector (EAI) has now entered the home-straight. The project is close to achieving several important milestones. The EAI constitutes a critical infrastructure for the European Commission, ...

In August 2006, I learned for the first time what a professional towing strap means. Twenty-year-old Jana Kavacova, who had been missing for days, was found buried in the industrial area ...

I am contacting you to refer to an event that has infuriated me for months and I am sure that other Cypriots have also suffered. Specifically, from October 26, 2022 until November 2, 2022, ...

We have carefully read your editorial “Nicosia’s pavement plan falls short for some” (Cyprus Mail, April 28), in which you question the municipality’s policy to proceed with the creation ...

Decent wages for most workers have fallen victim to crony capitalism In a Cyprus Mail opinion piece of April 30, 2023 it was argued that the economic system of Cyprus characterised by ...

Today’s elections are a chance for mild-mannered, modest Kemal Kilicdaroglu to take over There is earthquake diplomacy and there is earthquake democracy. Earthquake diplomacy is when diplomatic relations between ...

I COULD not resist the temptation to engage in a little bit of cannibalism, having not had the opportunity to do so when everyone was at it last week, prompting ...

The issue of Israelis investing in the occupied north was raised by President Nikos Christodoulides at Wednesday’s meeting – his first – with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The information was ...

Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should ...