Opinion

MY FRIEND who called to ask whether he was going mad or the world around him had gone mad was given a scientific answer to his question last week by ...

We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops ‘Orcs’ even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came ...

President Anastasiades made a rousingly defiant speech at the 14th Congress of the New Democracy party in Athens, at which he was a guest speaker, to justify his handling of ...

In theory, Turkish Cypriots should be able to vote in the Republic’s presidential elections There is election fever in the air in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). Candidates are ...

By Maria Demertzis and Francesco Papadia When Europeans imposed sanctions on Russian firms and authorities, they did not sanction Gazprombank. This was necessary or European companies would not have been ...

The central committee of Akel meets this weekend to discuss the proposal prepared by the political bureau for the presidential elections. The political bureau will give the central committee a ...

By Bronwyn Eager, Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern. The 2017 book “Nomadland: Surviving ...

It was good to see the House education committee starting a debate about public school opening hours and plans for all-day schools. This is an initiative of the committee chairman, ...

JUST over a year ago, the government was celebrating because the European Commission finally registered halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO). The registration had waited for years because ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou All round us, human progress is rapidly evolving. Still, the rich get richer, and the poor get ever poorer when a mix ...

It is difficult not to view the anti-corruption authority, whose members were appointed by President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday, with a dose of cynicism. This has nothing to do with ...

By Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland Almost one year ago, as Poland marked the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of May 3, Warsaw was visited by the ...

Labour Day offered an opportunity to Akel to repeat the narrative about the government widening economic inequality and creating a bleak future for the workers. This narrative has been served ...

By Liu Yantao What is the Global Security Initiative? At the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 on April 21, 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The ‘Green Deal’ and the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy constitutes a top priority both at EU and global level, leading to new ...

Two months ago, when Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, every message from Washington or Nato about the invasion included a prominent passage saying what the western alliance would not ...

Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has cast Russia as a pariah. How long before Russia might be readmitted to the community of civilised nations? What will it all ...

It is not enough for candidates to promise change, they must say what this is and how it will be achieved I confess I do not ‘belong’ to anyone. Neither ...

A FRIEND, I had not heard from for months called me on Thursday saying he needed psychological support, because “I do not know if I am going mad or the ...

Russia’s ‘special military operation’ for the alleged de-Nazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine has entered its third month with no end in sight. On the contrary, there has been an ...

The former is no Neville Chamberlain and the latter is not Hitler Presidential elections in France are always interesting but when an election takes place in the middle of a ...

Inflation’s surge following excessive stimulus and an energy crisis makes the way ahead hazardous By Andrew Shouler Stagflation is upon us, inflation leading towards economic stagnation. Western economies are ...

By Maria Demertzis The war in Ukraine has brought an end to a 60-year period in which Europe has enjoyed a peace dividend, an amount released by reducing defence expenditure ...

Another candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections was announced on Friday, bringing the total of number of candidates standing, so far, to six. If there are more than six, we apologise ...