Opinion

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The recent agreement between the USA, UK and Australia, known as Aukus, allows the latter to acquire nuclear-powered submarines while simultaneously cancelling contracts with ...

By Alper Ali Riza A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...

Cyprus marked the 61st anniversary of the Cyprus Republic on Friday with the customary military parade and the familiar assertions about the Republic being the biggest safeguard for the survival ...

President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who arrives in Cyprus on Wednesday on an official visit, explains the importance of the Polish Solidarity movement’s ‘Appeal to the ...

There is no hidden significance to halloumi acquiring Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status on the same day we mark the establishment of the Cyprus Republic. It is sheer coincidence, ...

Ambassador Liu Yantao on the 72nd Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China October 1 this year is the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People’...

After Monday’s meeting with Ersin Tatar and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President Anastasiades said he expected an announcement by the following day about the appointment of an envoy ...

The ease with which some public sector unions resort to strike action while showing utter disregard for the inconvenience they will cause is nothing new. Often the mere threat of ...

By David Milliken More than a million British workers face an uncertain future this week as the UK becomes the world’s first big economy to wind up its Covid-19 ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The series The Fall is set in a religiously and politically tinderbox-tense Belfast where Gillian Anderson, a senior metropolitan police officer sent ...

By Roberto Sciffo In many cases it would seem that mankind is in control of the environment; we have shown the ability to excavate mountains, seed clouds to make it ...

Last week the audit service published the findings of an audit of Paralimni Municipality, listing a litany of irregularities and failures, and, as the service’s spokesman said, possible criminal ...

The government’s support schemes that saw businesses through the last 18 months of lockdowns and restrictions of trade will be terminated at the end of October, it was announced last ...

Europe has been left exposed to the vagaries of extreme weather Europe is going through a natural gas crisis, partly self-inflicted. The spectacular increase in gas, but also electricity, prices ...

I am reverting on the subject of my article of last Sunday because it is an issue of the highest national importance. As I have already explained in the past, “...

Much commotion but not much change as the most trusted politician in Germany steps down Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls ...

After the golden passports exposé there was an outcry against corruption. Citizens held demonstrations, newspapers wrote fiery editorials against sleaze and opposition parties demanded a clean-up. Corruption became the main ...

ALL DAY on Friday CyBC radio news played the story that “powerful messages about the Cyprus problem are expected to be sent by the President of the Republic, from the ...

The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...

By George M. Georgiou and Les Manison The financial crisis of 2007–2009, referred to as the Great Recession, which afflicted most of the advanced capitalist economies and beyond, triggered a debate ...

The ‘creative’ meeting President Anastasiades had with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday and his rather strong-worded address to the UN General Assembly on Friday afternoon will now be followed ...

The government has made many lofty promises over the years to make the lives of its citizens easier, among them the e-government project, which seems to be a bit hit ...

It was very disappointing to hear that President Anastasiades cancelled his scheduled meeting with Archbishop Elpidoforos of America, citing a heavy work schedule as his excuse. This was not the ...

By Richard Dickenson Between the Olympics and the Paralympics most of what little summer UK was awarded got mopped up in the wall-to-wall TV coverage thereof. Never once, however, in ...