Opinion

The European Commission is turning the screw on the Cyprus Republic over its failure to amend the law governing reduced VAT for the purchase of first homes. Brussels’ patience is ...

Where do you look when somebody says: “In the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two combat tours was recorded, time-stamped. I could always ...

The Church has always had a prominent and very influential role in Cyprus. This role was evident in most aspects of life, from education to politics, and was largely determined ...

With demand up and supplies lower, oil prices are expected to rise If 2022 was a difficult year for energy, 2023 is expected to be even harder as the Russia-Ukraine war continues ...

It was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. The ‘hurricane’ was the explosion of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines in 1991, which boosted 17 million tons of ...

By Stefan Wolff For the past two months, Russia has systematically targeted Ukrainian infrastructure, devastating the country’s power grid and putting many basic services from healthcare to sanitation at ...

Elections are only a month away. It’s time to take a serious look at our choices In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that the presidential candidate nominated ...

By Sebnem Eroglu Many people migrate to another country to earn a decent income and to attain a better standard of living. But my recent research shows that across all ...

The marathon presidential election campaign, which started a little under a year ago, entered the final straight on Friday with the official submission of candidacies. A record 14 candidates will be ...

I WAS tempted to wish our customers a happy new year, but in the end I decided against it as I do not think 2023 has the potential to be happy ...

Advisory opinions do not bind states but it is an exercise of soft power The UN General Assembly signalled its decision to challenge Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides In this article, we will examine the political landscape in Cyprus from 2011 onwards, against a backdrop of rising right-populism in advanced liberal democracies over the past couple ...

In the last few weeks we were given yet another depressing demonstration of how the teaching unions use the subservient deputies and political parties to prevent the government implementing its ...

By Ben Highmore As an expert in media and cultural studies, I once appeared in a television series about technology in the home during the last three decades of the 20...

There is almost nothing positive in the UN Secretary-General’s latest draft reports on his Good Offices Mission and on Unficyp that are due for release this week. Irrespective of ...

A new year represents the start of a brand-new chapter in the book that is your life. However, even though so many individuals have lofty goals, over two thirds of ...

Over the last five or six weeks, President Anastasiades has toured the island inaugurating projects, inspecting works in progress, announcing projects that have been approved and listing the amount of ...

The Commissioner for Transparency and head of the Anti-Corruption Authority, Haris Poyiadjis, announced that the newly established authority was ready to start work. The legislature approved the regulations for its ...

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” wrote Sam Johnson 250 years ago, and the Israeli prime minister has just confirmed ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

And it’s time it published audited accounts The election result of the first round of the ecclesiastical elections was significant in that the voter turnout was striking low at 30 ...

Central to the art of prediction is the presumption of continuity. Predicting change where change is due is easy as is continuity where there is stability. By definition one cannot ...

By Jane Messer One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and oceans as I possibly can, to use my liberty and swimming ...

The wearing of ritual or decorative masks in performances or ceremonies to hide the identity of the wearer By Martin Clark My articles in the Cyprus Mail usually deal with ...