Our View: Hahn likely to add more confusion than value to peace process
The EU’s ‘substantive and more active involvement’ in the efforts to resume negotiations on the Cyprus problem could have a high added value for the efforts of the UNSG’...
Our View: Akel is quite simply stuck in the past
Akel held its 24th Pancyprian conference at the weekend, electing a new central committee and re-electing its leader Stefanos Stefanou with 96.4 per cent of the vote. This was a mobilisation ...
The dividing line between fact and fiction
In the 1980s, there was a joke doing the rounds among IT people like myself.
The Cray supercomputer was asked the ultimate question: “Is there a god? Does it exist?” ...
The trade war is morphing into a capital war
By Miranda Xafa
In a recent article (“The Global Role of the Dollar After the Tramp Tariffs”) I discussed the possibility of a “Mar-a-Lago” accord, proposed by President Trump’s ...
Diplomacy ends, missiles begin: US pounds Iran nuclear sites
In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva.
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Cyprus and India: from non-alignment to strategic alignment
By Euripides L Evriviades
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus – India’s first in over two decades and the first of an Indian PM since Cyprus joined the ...
Rerunning old movies: this could be Trump’s own ‘forever war’
I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again.
“They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...
Malta’s lauded ‘cheap electricity’ comes at a high price
By Dr Andreas Procopiou
In recent weeks, public discourse in Cyprus around the future of the electricity market has been flooded with voices suggesting we should “freeze” electricity prices, just ...
What will cause the next financial crisis?
The bursting of interrelated credit and property bubbles has caused financial crises in the US and certain European countries, including Cyprus, in recent decades.
The epicentre of the global financial ...
An antidote to the hysteria over Iran
When a war of words gets out of hand an actual war usually follows. The war of words between Iran and Israel has been going on for many years and ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s statesman gets lost in translation
PREZNIKTWO’S delusions of world statesmanship were dealt a vicious blow (thankfully it was not fatal, and some delusions survived) last weekend when Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei suggested ...
Our View: Israel strikes, Iran fires back, world waits on Trump
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK met their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi in Geneva on Friday, in an attempt to open a path back to diplomacy for ...
Iran-Israel
What UK involvement in Iran could look like
At the time of writing, US President Donald Trump is deliberating over whether to join Israel’s air campaign to destroy Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. This is already ...
Our View: Rising wages mask public sector inefficiencies
Nobody should have been surprised to be listening to Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou taking credit for the 13 per cent increase in the average salary in the last two years. It ...
Our View: Minister backs down as unions block teacher evaluation reform
In the end, the education ministry surrendered to the teaching unions over the evaluation system, the bill for which it had submitted to the House for approval. As expected, the ...
Is the pursuit of meaningful work becoming a class divide?
By Panagiota Steliou
More and more young professionals today are rejecting the traditional pursuit of climbing the corporate ladder for job security and financial growth – a path that appealed more ...
Our View: Multiple pensions debate masks elite privilege
The council of ministers on Wednesday approved another bill that would supposedly deal with the controversial issue of multiple pensions. What was approved by the cabinet, could still be changed ...
Our View: Russia remains untouchable for our political system and most media
Defending the president’s diplomatic blunder about Iran’s alleged message, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos criticised the opposition parties for focusing on this while completely ignoring the Russian Federation’s ...
Our View: President embarrassed himself and Cyprus by engaging in public diplomacy
President Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to give the Cyprus Republic and himself a ‘role’ in international affairs backfired at the weekend, when the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry issued a ...
Launch of Cyprus’ competitive electricity market
It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1.
It took an inordinate length of time to ...
The unbearable predictability of Donald Trump
During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...
Bottom trawling: nightmare vision of mass death and destruction
At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...
Israel’s attacks on Iran hint at a bigger ambition: regime change
By Crispian Balmer, Maayan Lubell, Michael Martina and Matt Spetalnick
Israel’s surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran’s nuclear programme and lengthening the ...
Various reasons for contempt of court
In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...