Opinion

Last week, out of the blue, Nicosia municipal council voted to change the regime governing the lower part of Makarios avenue in Nicosia. This is the part that is closed ...

By Panagiota Steliou Not long ago, I found myself on a popular beach in Bali. All around me, young travellers in swimwear were filming themselves – running along the shore, narrating ...

In classrooms, parks, offices and even around the family dinner table, the signs are becoming harder to ignore. As an educator, a scientist of human physical health, and a father, ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, it seems, cannot issue a statement about the president’s activities or statements without inflating its importance. Everything has to be significant, important, unprecedented, historic, emblematic ...

Former auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides announced the creation of his political movement, Alma, (Leap) on Monday, using the slogan, ‘Citizens for Cyprus.’ Alma will contest next year’s parliamentary elections, with ...

The first high-level talks between Russia and Ukraine since the early months of Moscow’s 2022 invasion showed they are far from agreement on steps needed for a ceasefire, even though ...

Will there be room to use LNG created in the region even if it does come online? East Med energy revolves around the biggest country in the region, Egypt. It ...

It’s been just over a month since “liberation day” was announced by President Trump and things have zigzagged in different directions since then. The last development in this saga, ...

The Trump administration’s trade policies continue to monopolise attention. The implications are multidimensional. Among other things, they affect the course of the dollar, as well as the exchange rates ...

By Dimitri Gonis Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped that ‘God learnt Greek when he wanted to become an author’. On the April 14, 2025 Unesco agreed with him, formally recognising Greek as “the ...

Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum terms By Euripides L Evriviades Thucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in ...

Immigration dominates politics in Europe and America in ways it had never done previously. It is the main platform of all right-wing movements that are mushrooming everywhere on both sides ...

WE WERE subjected to a new bout of hysterical, government self-congratulation, just few weeks after the last one, when the office of the president of the European Commission announced that ...

Shortly after the appointment of Johannes Hahn as the EU envoy for the Cyprus problem was announced, former party leader and MEP Dr Eleni Theocharous felt duty bound to warn ...

The EU is perhaps facing the most critical challenges since its creation. Certainly, it has to make major choices which will eventually determine its future path. These include vital economic, ...

By Miranda Xafa In 1944 the victorious countries of World War II were invited to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to decide the postwar world economic order and the architecture of the ...

Allegations about shady dealings and corruption at the interior ministry’s service administering properties owned by Turkish Cypriot are nothing new. We have been hearing them for years. Administration of ...

FOR MANY years the authorities have been trying to address the issue of property buyers, who were not issued title deeds. In the past, many thousands of foreign buyers had ...

The self-congratulations started in Nicosia soon after the announcement of the appointment of former European Commissioner, Johannes Hahn as the personal envoy of the European Commission president, Ursula von der ...

The recently-widowed and aged Cypriot neighbour of a friend took to going to church in the evenings unaware she was being watched. One night, she returned to find her home ...

Was anyone naïve enough to believe the education ministry would be able to introduce a new evaluation system for public school teachers? Teaching unions have been preventing the proper ...

President Nicos Christodoulides declared on Sunday that Cyprus will join the Schengen Area next year. A huge effort was being made, and the president was certain that “by the end ...

By Miranda Xafa Trump’s tariffs dominate discussions about the global economic order and the outlook for the global economy at the IMF’s Spring Meetings. Existing rules are being ...

Poor Maria Angela Holguin has once again been dragged into the political minefield that is Cyprus, reappointed as the UN secretary-general’s (UNSG) personal envoy. There was hesitation in announcing ...