Opinion

Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians ...

Cyprus’ presidency of the EU Council comes to an end today and will be taken over by Ireland from tomorrow. In the six months from January 1, the Cyprus presidency held ...

Venezuela’s strongest earthquake in over a century is the biggest challenge to Delcy Rodriguez’s early leadership but could also allow the interim president to stamp her authority on ...

The first round of high-level US-Iran talks in Lucerne produced cautious but meaningful progress towards restoring stability in one of the world’s most important energy regions. Both sides described ...

Renowned Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag died on Sunday at the age of 67.  In a career which spanned over four and a half decades, Uludag devoted herself to the cause of ...

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), finalised at Versailles in June 2026 following mediation in Islamabad, marks a fundamental turning point in global affairs. While the agreement appears to halt a devastating ...

An acknowledged Greek painter and a good friend of mine, Sylvana Samartzidou, recently portrayed me gazing at the past, next to a classic Cyprus fishing boat grounded on the golden ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For decades, the trajectory of the global economy was built on the deepening of trade and other cross‑border linkages. Trade barriers were declining, ...

There were two judgments of general interest from the English courts two weeks ago about Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group based in UK that campaigned against the UK government’...

I wish to draw attention to what I consider to be an unnecessary flaw in Cyprus’ road tax renewal system, and I hope that Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades will take ...

NIK I was back in the spotlight on Tuesday reliving the good old days when he was Kyproulla’s ex officio centre of attention. The last time he had so ...

CoLA demonstrations in Limassol

By Dina-Perla Portnaar My first five days in Cyprus were hell, with problems inside the house that demanded attention before anything else could begin to settle, continuous management of issues ...

By Micheál Martin On July 1, on the conclusion of its successful six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Cyprus will pass the baton to Ireland for its ...

The government decision to appoint independent criminal investigators, to look into the possible offences listed in the report by the anti-corruption authority about the allegations made in Mafia State, does ...

Cyprus tourism is facing a profound transformation that is reshaping the entire structure of the market. The period when holidays were booked months ahead of summer, allowing businesses to forecast ...

We do not often hear politicians speak critically of the abuse of rights by public servants. It was therefore a very pleasant surprise to hear two ministers bring up the ...

Apart from the Nimby (not in my back yard) culture with regard to asphalt factories, migrant centres, kebab shops and so forth we are now seeing this being extended to ...

The government has bowed to union pressure with regard to its pension reform plan. After a meeting of the Labour Advisory Body, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said there had been ...

At a ‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to make a ...

Another National Council meeting was held on Monday so that President Nikos Christodoulides could inform the leaders of the parliamentary parties about the latest peace initiative undertaken by the UN. ...

Alan Greenspan, hailed as the greatest Federal Reserve chairman when he retired in 2006 but derided for a severe financial crisis that followed barely two years later, died on Monday aged 100, ...

The geopolitical chessboard of the Eastern Mediterranean is a harsh, unforgiving arena where the survival of smaller states depends entirely on a cold, pragmatic calculation of the regional balance of ...

A different kind of column today. A personal one. Not so long ago, I wrote about Albert Camus and the absurdity of life. This came back to haunt me when ...