Opinion

“The world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7°C of heating,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “There is a high risk of failure of COP26.” That’s the global ...

The government budget for 2022 presented to the House of Representatives on October 7 calls for the overall deficit to be reduced substantially from an estimated 5 per cent of GDP in 2021 to 1.1 ...

Dire warnings have been coming from everywhere in recent weeks about inflation and the resulting hike in prices consumers will begin to really feel in the new year. We’re ...

THIS WAS written before the proletarian masses were taken to the presidential palace, from all over Kyproulla in buses hired by Akel to demand the resignation of Prez Nik, for ...

There are rights and obligations, and you can’t invoke rights but eschew obligations If called upon to rule on the matter, no European institution would buy the argument that ...

The Sunday Mail’s coverage on October 24 of measures to alleviate heavy traffic in Limassol and Nicosia was welcome. However, the public health angle was hidden. Encouraging people to walk, ...

The article by Bejay Browne in the Sunday Mail of October 24 gives a slightly more hopeful sign of Cyprus having a crematorium. How wonderful it would be for many thousands ...

Following the editorial in the Sunday Mail (The Herculean task of unclogging our roads, October 24), may I make the following comments? As a permanent resident of Nicosia for the last ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Economic inequality has always attracted attention because of its significant economic and political implications. The most widely accepted method to measure economic inequality is ...

By Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland The European Union is in a difficult position today. We are still struggling with successive waves of pandemic infections. We have just started ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

Indeed it was unprecedented that a court on Wednesday found three teenagers guilty in the bullying death of 16-year-old Panayiotis Stefani who died from alcohol poisoning after a house party ...

Following another recent demonstration by Dali residents over the delay in relocating two polluting asphalt plants in their area, MPs picked up the topic again on Wednesday at the House ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Maari and Maria are very different: Maari is still as flamboyant in manner and mode as she was in the 60s, Maria ...

The naturalisation plight of two children of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish Cypriot father is a bit like being thrown back in time to 1980s Cyprus, and the ...

The plight of Theklia and Christos two mixed heritage children refused Cypriot ID cards is too close to home and personally too close to the bone to ignore. It was ...

After around 13 years, Cyprus’ motorists will once more see traffic cameras on the roads as part of efforts to enhance safety and reduce fatalities. Monday saw the inauguration of the ...

By Tasoula Hadjitofi As a resident of The Hague in the Netherlands, I have become familiar with the international courts which have transformed this historic Dutch city into an international ...

The primacy of the EU’s legal system over the laws and constitutions of member states is necessary for the union to exist By Alper Ali Riza The spat between ...

The system would protect both communities By Christos P Panayiotides Before attempting to explain why the issue of political equality is important for the Turkish Cypriots, but also for the ...

I’ve been having this conversation with friends, and we never seem to get anywhere. Maybe your readers can help. Everyone agrees that the main reason for Covid-19 restrictions isn’...

Led by the government, politicians in Cyprus accommodate banks using any means at their disposal, to the detriment of the economy and taxpayer By Savvakis C. Savvides In a country ...

The months of lockdowns, restrictions on movement, distance learning and work from home, made us all forget about the traffic chaos that was part of our daily lives before the ...

More concern about next elections than worrying about next 30 years By Charles Ellinas There is a huge gap between what we need to do about climate change in the region ...