Opinion

A big proportion of the Cyprus Republic’s population does not have a positive picture of the European Union. According to the Spring survey of the Eurobarometer, only 42 per cent ...

EFFORTS to prevent a settlement of our Cyprob have entered a new sphere, which involves an old methodology – letter-writing. The two leaders have now decided the best way not to ...

Dear Editor, I read the former justice minister’s op-ed with great interest. However, while Ms Yiolitis had valid points, she discredited her argument by closing with the Reverend Martin ...

Dear editor, Your editorial, ‘Why does every village have to be a tourist attraction?’ in the Cyprus Mail on Thursday June16, 2022, on the Deputy Ministry of Tourism’s initiative to ...

Dear Sir, Further to the article written by Bejay Browne ‘British residents lose right to winter fuel allowance’, which appeared in the Cyprus Mail on May 15, 2021. During a recent residents ...

The government has signed a deal to buy six assault helicopters from France at a total cost of €140 million and the expenditure was approved behind closed doors by the parties ...

He was the most popular royal of a younger generation. A prince who served in the British armed forces for over ten years and was promoted to British Army Major. ...

There was a relatively positive outcome to Thursday’s mass meeting of stakeholders under the minister of health, that discussed the provision of healthcare at weekends. It would be nice ...

Sometimes it’s hard to know if the pollsters in Brussels actually believe the things they hear from the people they survey in member states from time to time, or ...

Drastic new regulations are coming and if the government doesn’t take serious actions people will pay a heavy price By Charalampos Theopemptou As part of the European Green Deal, ...

The allegations made by director of Nicosia Central Prison Anna Aristotelous against a senior-ranking police officer of the drug squad have completely dominated the news since the story broke last ...

The timing of Disy’s political-ideological conference seemed rather strange. If it were intended to give a boost to the candidacy of party leader Averof Neophytou it was done too ...

Botched-up policies in the implementation of renewables are not helping Cyprus electricity prices have been escalating since last year and there does not appear to be an end in sight. ...

Dear Mr Mavroyiannis, I have very carefully read your speech from last Tuesday, in which you announced your candidacy for the presidency of the Republic of Cyprus. I confess that, ...

We cannot allow rule of law our democracies purport to hold dear to be undermined in imposing sanctions By Emily Yiolitis It is not going to be a short war ...

By Louisa Borg Haviara Historical revisionism or revisionist history is the reinterpretation of orthodox views of evidence, motivations and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event. It is also the distortion ...

The rule of law means individuals can do as they like unless there is a law that says they can’t, whereas government can do nothing unless there is a ...

How would we know if the United States is deliberately starving Ukraine of weapons in order to force it into a compromise peace settlement that leaves some Ukrainian territory – maybe ...

President Anastasiades has eight months left in office and from his recent behaviour we can deduce that he is already thinking about his legacy and how he will be remembered. ...

THE MASS mourning of the previous week was replaced by mass indignation on Friday when Politis broke the story about the attempts of a senior police officer to secure film ...

Dear Sirs, Every day I read with interest what you have to say in your editorials, hopefully a pithy comment on the state of our little country and the sad ...

Hello there, Last week, several media outlets warned that eating two portions of fish a week increases the risk of malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. The ...

On the surface, the suggestion about selling natural gas to Turkey by presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis, seems like a good way of breaking the deadlock in the talks. With direct ...

By Ben McCann 40 years ago this month saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – a film about a stranded alien, the boy called Elliott who discovers ...