Opinion

Some things never change in Cyprus. A couple of days ago, at a House committee meeting with all the representatives invited, complained about the obstacles faced by foreign investors. The ...

A major disagreement surfaced at the House on Wednesday when Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, presented the provisions of the bills for the reform of the Legal Service. The reform would ...

The European Union is failing a basic test of credibility. For months, it has decried Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank as unlawful, yet it has taken ...

The CoLA dispute, thanks to which there will be a national three-hour work stoppage on Thursday affecting airports, hospitals, schools, public transport and inconveniencing tens of thousands of people, does ...

Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

Just when more and more businesses are recognising the disadvantages of ‘work from home’, the Cyprus government has decided to introduce it in the public service. In fact, in many ...

There is no ‘New World Order’, although there is certainly a new world disorder. The ‘rules-based international order’ that was created after the Second World War, mainly under American leadership, ...

The government has displayed astonishing ineptitude and amateurishness in the way it has dealt with the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI). Even worse, President Nikos Christodoulides has shown a staggering lack ...

It has been a tumultuous week for energy in Cyprus. Its two biggest projects, the import of LNG at Vasilikos and the GSI electrical interconnector, were in the limelight mostly ...

In a recent article, we discussed the short-term effects of President Trump’s economic policies on global equity and bond markets. Today, we will try to analyse the long-term effects, ...

In Tom Cleaver’s article (Cyprus Mail, September 1), Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said he feels satisfied and proud about “efforts made by the Greek foreign ministry at the United ...

Thanks to the Cyprus Mail giving space to my previous rants, I can report further that I lost my case with the newly re-organised Larnaca local district administration in the ...

By Dimitris Eleas When I was a child in Greece, I remember my father saying, “Chinese steel breaks – cuts – like bread.” (I’m not sure if he himself still remembers ...

By Flora Alexandrou As scholars remind us, national identity is not a fixed concept, nor does it have a single agreed interpretation. It shifts with time, place and circumstance, and ...

Cyprus’ GDP is growing rapidly and banks are making big profits, but is the welfare of most people benefiting from such developments? The answer is a definite no as the ...

If Cyprus has problems of identity so too does the UK Flags and national anthems were in the news in UK and Cyprus lately in ways that caused mild but ...

THERE are still two-and-a-half years for the presidential elections but the scheming and plotting by rival blocks has already started. It was therefore no surprise to see an article by ...

Only last month former president Nicos Anastasiades made public a letter he had sent Disy leader Annita Demetriou, complaining because the party failed to publicly defend the work of his ...

We do not know how our politicians came up with the idea that society has a moral duty to ensure that living conditions for students at public universities are as ...

Cyprus has been facing a nursing shortage for some time, but nothing was done by the authorities apart from mounting a campaign encouraging young people to study nursing. The campaign ...

The terms of three commissioners will end in the next five weeks, it was reported, and President Christodoulides will have to decide whether these will be renewed or new people ...

We’re all subjective when it comes to what we consume for sustenance or pleasure. The rich can be picky and pricy about what they eat, the poor are stuck ...

By Tomaz Lovsin The European Union is at a crossroads in its digital policy. A draft regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (CSA) — often called “Chat Control” — would ...

The decision by the main unions to stage a national, three-hour work stoppage to press for the full restoration of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) came as no surprise. ...