Opinion

The council of ministers decided on Thursday to reduce the consumption tax on fuel and forwarded the relevant bill to the legislature for immediate approval. Consumption tax on petrol and ...

Ahead of the official visit of the President of Israel Isaac Herzog, the country’s ambassador to Cyprus Oran Anolik gave assurances that the improvement of relations between Israel and ...

Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University Russia knows sanctions. In 2009, the death of Moscow anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody motivated Bill Browder, an entrepreneur who used to work in Russia ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou For some women removing their clothes in front of a stranger may not be a big deal; they’re relaxed about their ...

By Theo Kyriacou Nearly a fortnight ago when the Russian government had yet to send troops into Ukraine, two experts well versed in the history of East-West relations expressed their ...

By Marilena Evangelou & Yiannis Seitanidis The imposition of severe economic sanctions in Russia has made the daily life of those Cypriots who are in the country for work or ...

One of the main reasons for failing public education is excessive power wielded by the teaching unions. This union power has created a public school system that primarily exists to ...

AFTER last week’s meeting of the European Council, it was reported that Cyprus was among the few member-states that had blocked the proposal to cut off Russia from the ...

From occupation to thousands of refugees Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine and foreclosed his and everybody else’s other options, certain aspects of the near future ...

In the aftermath of this crisis Europe will be even more determined to accelerate transition to renewables and clean energy The unthinkable, and probably illogical, happened. Russia has finally invaded ...

By Achilleas Demetriades On February 23 I submitted my resignation from the post of president of the Human Rights Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA) during a Committee meeting. I ...

Open letter to the Commissioner of Taxation By Christos P. Panayiotides and Nicos G. Syrimis Dear Mr Georgios Panteli, A major problem has confronted Cyprus since 2004, the year in which ...

It can start by countering Putin’s information strategy By William Partlett With an all-out war on Ukraine underway, a key question has emerged: what can the West do to ...

His decision to invade Ukraine has made the task of criticising Nato difficult, but the reality is that Nato is not innocent I am happy to don sackcloth and ashes ...

Cyprus LNG plant vs the East Med pipeline in the context of Greek-Turkish and geopolitical tensions By Panayiotis Tilliros According to John Mearsheimer, the eminent American international relations scholar, “what ...

While the fighting was raging in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged Ukrainians to get rid of their oppressive government. Russia had no plans to occupy Ukraine or ...

THE LOCAL children of Mother Russia had their world turned upside down over the last week when the country they so lavishly praised for its supposed principled stand on the ...

By Irene Demetriou Revisiting the historical past of international relations and politics, Cold War terminology comes to mind more vividly than ever before, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For ...

By Maria Demertzis In the 2020 revision of monetary policy strategy, the US Federal Reserve adjusted the pursuit of an inflation rate at 2 per cent, to inflation that ‘averages 2 per cent ...

The biggest enemy of any country’s tourism industry is uncertainty, whether it be political, financial, or more recently a health crisis. Apart from three successive record years, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Cyprus ...

By Liz Truss Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine exposes Vladimir Putin’s regime for what it is: mendacious, bellicose and calculating. His Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, told ...

President Vladimir Putin described it as a ‘special military operation’ in the televised address announcing the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but it was a full-scale invasion. Putin ...

Nobody knows whether the action plan to tackle Gesy’s bad practices and squandering of the taxpayer’s money will prove effective, but it is step in the right direction. ...

By Beth Daley, Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes and other small places? Or how cats communicate with humans? Marc ...