Opinion

The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Russian leader Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a fish or two, because he’...

By Melina Moleskis What is behavioural economics in a nutshell? Behavioural economics is about observing and understanding human decisions up close without prior assumptions. Its aim is to make people’...

Another pretext has been found by the Confederation of Parents’ Associations to stop the holding of twice-yearly exams for graduates. The new council of the confederation issued a statement on ...

ExxonMobil considers the East Med a promising hydrocarbon basin By Charles Ellinas With Covid-19 resurging, Cyprus’ EEZ is back in the limelight. ExxonMobil is about to start drilling in block 10, ...

By Gwynne Dyer The “new normal”, said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides We have arrived, yet again, at Christmas, which we will celebrate next Saturday. At Christmas, we recall the innocence of the newborn baby, we launch a ...

Government inefficiency, corruption and bad policies based on ignoring the huge amount of debt will come back to bite us By Les Manison Research articles contend that the quality of ...

Melissa Chim, General Theological Seminary The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a special place among Christmas traditions, ...

By Alper Ali Riza The victory of Helen Morgan over the Conservative candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst in the North Shropshire mid-term election on Friday is a shot across the bows of ...

The 10 defendants implicated in a loans scandal at the Strovolos Cooperative Bank were cleared of all charges by the Nicosia criminal court on Thursday. There was a total of 48 charges ...

THERE was some good news this week, among the long list of mind-numbing rules about what combination of vaccinations and PCR or rapid tests would allow you to go to ...

After last year’s shenanigans over the state budget, which became the subject of political horse-trading before it was eventually approved in January, it was good to return to business ...

The agreement between unions of the two sides to arrange the employment of Turkish Cypriots in the Republic, which is faced by acute labour shortages was a commendable initiative. The ...

A statement yesterday from the interior ministry on migration read more like an angry rant from a very frustrated person than a measured government announcement on a sensitive issue. That ...

by Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland Another summit of the European Council is being held today, December 16. This time there will be an important debate on energy policy and ...

This article summarises the discussion Forum organised by the Cyprus Economic Society on 14 October 2021 on the German Elections and What it Means for Europe. The speaker was Dr Christian Odendahl, ...

Despite expectations cultivated by the government, nobody was surprised that any EU decision of punitive measures against Turkey and Turkish Cypriots regarding the opening of the fenced area of Varosha ...

By Charalampos Theopemtou The first time I ever had to cook to eat was when I first arrived in London to study and I was living on my own for ...

Monday’s decision by the council of ministers about the Omicron cases did not last very long. What the minister of health, Michalis Hadjipantelas, said after the meeting was changed ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou Just a few months into my first year at university, the UK government decided to increase the fees for international students from something around £250 to a few ...

By Savvakis C. Savvides More often than not debt is presented as the evil of our times. To a large extent this is true but debt is only a symptom ...

Cyprus must align itself with European interests By Achilleas Demetriades The European Council will convene on December 16 to discuss once more the possibility of imposing sanctions on Turkey with regard ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy in the EU is gradually improving, despite the continuing pandemic. The historically unprecedented monetary and fiscal support was a decisive factor, which ...

I must admit that I googled the plot of the 1997 film ‘Wag the Dog’ before starting to write this. It’s a dark comedy about a US president facing a ...