Opinion

Hegel wrote that “all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice.” It was Karl Marx who said that Hegel forgot to add that these repeating events happen “first as tragedy, ...

By Loukis Skaliotis There is growing realisation in Europe that relying on itself for its defense is a top priority. President Trump’s “America first” policies have not taken long ...

What exciting news about the longed-for crematorium. As has been reported on many occasions there are thousands of us of all nationalities and faiths wanting this to happen. Cost, pollution ...

The Cyprus Orthodox Church’s stance that it will not perform funeral rites for individuals who choose cremation is ridiculous and unchristian and is based on an interpretation on religious ...

By Andreas Theophanous When it was first announced that Nikos Christodoulides would run for the presidency, expectations soared. Yet, as time passed, doubts about his candidacy began to surface, revealing ...

I found them on the hills of Pentalia. Two bodies, stiff, discarded as if they had never lived, as if their devotion had meant nothing. Hunting dogs, once valued for ...

The case of X v Cyprus attracted worldwide attention as it highlights the plight of rape complainants In a judgement last Thursday in the application of X v Cyprus, the ...

I HOPE that we have not disappointed all those people who had thought our establishment had closed down and that Patroclos had gone into retirement so he could concentrate on ...

The prospect of an informal, multi-party gathering in Geneva that would examine the possibility of a new peace process, which is anything but a certainty, appears to have worried some ...

By Marios Eliades Eighty years have already gone by since those who conceived the European idea, Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Altiero Spinelli, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer and others, laid the ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos should be congratulated for ignoring the reactionary pressure of the government doctors’ union Pasyki and going ahead with the submission of the bill that would establish ...

By Kerry Abbott The round table meeting on Cyprus due to take place next month may be postponed. The reason has been heard before: no common ground. In a previous ...

Mayors were outraged on hearing that Limassol municipality had been served with an invoice for €45,000 for the policing of Sunday’s carnival parade. The Union of Municipalities expressed its disapproval ...

Τhe ultra-nationalists of Elam and Edek, supported by a couple of newspapers, went on the offensive last week, after hearing that public schools were allegedly organising excursions to areas in ...

A retired martial arts master and I have laughed over on-screen fights where heroes seem impervious to the consequences of prolonged hits on their bodies. I once saw a young, ...

Another farcical meeting about multiple pensions was held at the House finance committee on Monday. This time deputies of all parties, including those supporting the government, turned against the government ...

The US administration’s 90-day foreign aid freeze has left a huge hole in funding worldwide for everything from HIV medicines to mosquito nets, but as calls go out for ...

‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.’ This quote often attributed to Lenin, may capture the moment. It is now a little more than ...

Monday marked three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the so-called “special military operation” that was meant to have been completed within a few days with the invading troops ...

If you’re lucky enough to have rooftop solar, check your energy app one of these days and you might be surprised to see ‘data interrupted’ or some other error ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Donald Trump’s global trade war and the way he has applied tariffs as a tool of coercion against foes and allies alike was the focus in ...

By Tim Potier It has been over a decade since I last wrote an op-ed piece for The Cyprus Mail. It feels like a long time. So long that, a ...

The performance of the Cypriot economy is currently rather noteworthy: satisfactory growth, low unemployment, modest inflation and surpluses in public finances. However, over time, it has also illustrated excessive deficits ...

The government is encouraging everyone to go and buy electric cars for the sake of the environment but: Firstly, is there enough electricity available to charge these vehicles. At present ...