Opinion

By Engin Kara For 50 years, property has sat at the centre of every negotiation on Cyprus, and every time it has been deferred to a “comprehensive settlement”. In a recent ...

There is something deeply troubling about the decision to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv to make Cyprus its home for its EuroLeague basketball matches this season. There is nothing inherently wrong ...

US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism. It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit. It ...

In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival. Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor diplomatic choreography can overturn the distribution ...

By Stelios Georgakis, Head, Directorate General Payments, Central Bank of Cyprus  Cyprus has long stood at the crossroads of continents, cultures and trade routes. Throughout its history, our island has ...

The trial of the British father who pleaded guilty of causing the death of his three-year-old boy who fell from a hotel window in Paphos last July will learn his ...

YOU HAVE to admire Averof Neophytou’s suicide bomber tactics with which he cleared the way for his presidential candidacy. It has not been secured yet, as he will stand ...

The sloppy amateurishness with which the government has approached the much-trumpeted reform of the pension system is astounding. The overall impression is that Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas does not have ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar I don’t want to own a car, for many reasons. In most European cities, people can choose whether they want one. Cyprus should enhance its public ...

The world of football marvelled at Manchester City’s extraordinary decade. It was not only the gathering of numerous trophies. It was the level of football they played that made ...

Attempts by the Cyprus police to have legislation that would allow telecommunication interception date back to the last century. The Clerides government had also drafted legislation that would allow wiretapping ...

In Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a judge used an unconventional method to decide who the true mother of a boy, whom two women claimed to be ...

The Limassol municipality has asked that it is given the ownership of the iconic Rialto theatre by the state. Although the finance ministry has agreed to the transfer, the council ...

Speaking about his intention to join the contest for the Disy presidential candidacy on Omega TV, former health minister Giorgos Pamborides said his plan was to appeal to voters beyond ...

“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president ...

World Teachers Day was marked on Monday just days ahead of planned industrial action by teachers in Cyprus and one day before the unions are to meet Education Minister Athena ...

Economic success creates a new question for Cyprus. Having repaired the state’s balance sheet, is the island using its financial strength sufficiently to repair structural weaknesses in its economy? ...

States in the international system operate in an environment of unyielding anarchy. No supreme arbiter protects a sovereign state when an existential crisis arrives. When a small state sits directly ...

Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed an array of politicians seemingly fixated on their own importance and on the unshakable belief that only they can make a difference ...

“Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was…very hard to do,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly last month, “but for me it was one ...

Modern societies are characterised by a concentration of wealth among a small proportion of citizens and by growing social inequalities. In Cyprus, political parties, organised groups and many citizens argue ...

The top priority of Finance Minister Makis Keravnos seems to be to use government budgets to produce and record large fiscal surpluses, rather than utilising budgets as a key instrument ...

The controversy about the description of Mehmet Harmanci as Turkish Cypriot mayor of Nicosia by the Cyprus Forum, who was driven to withdraw from its conference last week, was reminiscent ...

Matters of defence and military equipment “should not become the subject of pre-election exploitation”, defence minister Vasilis Palmas warned last week. Criticism is welcome, he added in comments to the ...