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Libya: Haftar’s last throw?

April 14th, 20192121 By Gwynne Dyer With Khalifa Haftar’s forces stalled outside the capital, Tripoli, the eight-year omnishambles in Libya is approaching a climax. It’s...

Opinion

Assange hacking charge limits free speech defence

April 14th, 20191068 By Jan Wolfe and Nathan Layne Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has portrayed himself as a champion of a free press, but the US Department of Justice’s...

Opinion

Pitfalls of the velvet divorce

April 14th, 20191878 By Christos P. Panayiotides THOSE who talk about “the velvet divorce” as being the second-best solution to the Cyprus problem apparently have never gone...

Opinion

Politicians won’t solve the Cyprus problem, but individuals can

April 14th, 20191699 By Alper Ali Riza Political leaders in Cyprus cannot agree the time of day let alone how to share a small island surrounded by a sea bed brimming with...

Opinion

Tales from the Coffeeshop: We’ve lost patience too Mr Prez

April 14th, 20193158 YOU HAVE to admire Prez Nik’s chutzpah when it comes to our beloved Cyprob. He acts as if his moral and rational superiority and strong sense of fairness...

Our View

Our View: US arms bill all part of president’s risky game

April 14th, 20191971 HOW paradoxical that as most opposition parties raved about the submission of the bill to Congress proposing the lifting of the US arms embargo on Cyprus, the...

Opinion

What happens after Oct 31? Some expect another Brexit delay

April 13th, 20191431 By Gabriela Baczynska The ink was not yet dry on EU leaders' deal to give Britain a hard-fought, second delay to Brexit until November when some diplomats...

Our View

Our View: Government needs to address low graduate employment

April 13th, 20191735 EVERY so often, figures are released showing a high percentage of youth unemployment. As we have written in the past, one explanation for this is that too many...

Our View

Our View: Clubs’ lack of funds is the root cause of match-fixing

April 12th, 20191147 CYPRUS football suffered another embarrassment this week when the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) decided to suspend the second division championship because...

Our View

Our View: Yet another delay to opening up electricity market

April 11th, 20191749 ENERGY minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis gave a new date for the opening up of the electricity market at a meeting of the House energy committee on Tuesday....

Our View

Our View: Will Herodotou be the governor to break tradition of bad appointments?

April 10th, 20191927 The new Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) Constantinos Herodotou was sworn in on Tuesday. We hope that Herodotou will end the depressingly long...

Our View

Our View: When will the UN give up this futile process?

April 9th, 20192723 HOW MANY more times will the UN Secretary-General’s envoy, Jane Holl Lute, have to meet the two leaders before she finally concedes defeat and calls an end...

CM Regular Columnist

The Israeli election and the West Bank

April 9th, 20191340 IT SHOULDN’T have been a surprise when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, three days before the Israeli election, that he is going to annex...

Guest Columnist

The actual cost of Gesy

April 7th, 20192647 The system’s impact on citizens, businesses and the real economy By Theodoros Mantis IN THE rush of preparations leading up to the implementation of the...

Guest Columnist

Brexit creates opportunities for the Cyprus economy

April 7th, 20193112 Cyprus as an alternative destination for UK companies seeking to export services to the EU By Greg Demetriou The eventual withdrawal of Britain from the...

CM Regular Columnist

Algeria pro-democracy protests: Hope, fear and desperation

April 7th, 2019845 By Gwynne Dyer One of the most popular slogans in the street protests in Algeria has been ‘Neither beard, nor kamis, nor police’. That needs a bit of...

CM Regular Columnist

East Med gas: a regional perspective

April 7th, 2019659 By Charles Ellinas An international workshop organised by a European think-tank in Nicosia on 3-4 April provided a regional perspective on East Med gas. The...

CM Regular Columnist

We ignore Elam at our peril

April 7th, 20193635 Elam has turned the ‘nationalist’ football clubs into nurseries for fascism By George Koumoullis In mature democracies, the recent statement by Elam...

Our View

Our View: Politicians setting policies for votes has led to civil servant privilege

April 7th, 20191348 What has been described as a ‘mini’ national council will be held on Monday at the presidential palace to discuss how to deal with the administrative court...

Tales from the Coffeeshop

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Conflicts of interest abound in pay cuts saga

April 7th, 20192226 THE HIDEOUS general-secretary of the parasites’ union Glafkos Hadjimourmouris looked like a man who had just won the Lotto jackpot on Wednesday at the 56th...

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