Opinion

President Trump’s announcement in April of sweeping tariffs – starting at a base rate of 10 per cent for all countries and escalating for China and specific product categories – triggered immediate ...

By Flora Alexandrou The term “bizonal, bicommunal federation” (BBF) has been repeated ad nauseam by politicians for decades. More recently, the Greek Cypriot leadership has replaced it with the more ...

By Russell Flick It has taken years of frustration, legal confusion, and enforcement chaos, but Cyprus has finally updated its swimming pool law – and the change could not come soon ...

A friend commented on my last week’s article as being too morbid. Writing a weekly column on domestic and world current affairs these days is certainly no picnic. Wars, ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) as a key strategic project was the clear and unequivocal view expressed by the European commissioner for energy, Dan Jorgensen, during his visit to Athens ...

We are not even close to readiness for firefighting. My husband and I live in Monagri, one of the villages affected by the recent wildfire. At 7.30pm on July 23, we ...

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the obligation of states to protect the climate system and the environment from manmade emissions of greenhouse ...

By Steve Lemeshko On the night of July 23, I stood outside in Limassol, watching ash drift from the sky. It was hard to imagine the chaos unfolding up towards the ...

YOU ALMOST felt sorry for Prezniktwo, seeing his dazed and confused look when he arrived at the crisis centre set up in Ayios Amvrosios to deal with wildfire in the ...

The government has been vilified for the perceived failure to contain the wildfire that broke out in Malia village around lunchtime on Wednesday and spread in the hills north of ...

It was at the beginning of June that government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, speaking about the country’s firefighting capability, boasted that the government was “at absolute operational readiness with strengthened ...

To the Presidents of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union and the heads ...

Good results in the Pancyprian exams are not necessary for all the places available at the two public universities. There are departments at these public universities that take students who ...

We doubt there is any political party or individual deputy unaware of the article in the constitution, preventing the passing of bills that would lead to unbudgeted state spending. It ...

I love Denzel Washington and although I hate violence, I watched Equalizer 3. He’s showing his age, yet unlike some of his fellow elder actors, there is something believable in ...

Tax revenue must be steadily rising, and the government has more money to spend than it had budgeted. There can be no other explanation for the bizarre decision to offer ...

I would rather eat worms than write about the current hullabaloo on the American right over the conspiracy theories about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his various pals and accomplices. The ...

General secretary of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas had an article published in Monday’s Politis, in which he demonstrated his role as the chief salesman of the automatic price ...

With demolishing the independence of the Federal Reserve in his sights, Trump’s almost complete dominance of the governance of the United States will be complete Trump’s campaign against ...

Start with China, the world’s biggest emitter by far of greenhouse gases: 27 per cent of the entire world’s emissions, and more than twice that of the second-biggest emitter, ...

A two-state solution is too inflexible and too terminal Rumours about the death of BBF have been greatly exaggerated. A bizonal bicommunal federation is both possible and desirable. It is ...

TODAY marks the 51st anniversary of the Turkish invasion. Within a month, the invasion army had taken control of 40 per cent of the Cyprus Republic’s territory and kicked out ...

The informal five plus one conference in New York, as everyone expected, came to nothing. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres could not even get the two leaders to agree on the ...

It is a positive development that Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, has decided to revisit the botched reform of local government, which resulted from years of chopping and changing the plans ...