Opinion

Ten more countries are recognising Palestine as a sovereign state in the course of this week. That merely brings the total up from 147 to 157, but it’s a big deal ...

The noise Akel has made about the circular sent by the government to municipal councils asking for the “strengthening of actions for fighting anti-Semitism and the incitement of racial hatred ...

Despite the early optimism they generated, the meetings in Alaska and Washington in mid-August, achieved nothing of substance, except that in their aftermath we may be nearer to an escalation ...

The single aim of the competitive electricity market (CEM) must be to bring about substantial reductions in Cyprus’ very high electricity prices. Anything else is of secondary importance and certainly ...

Efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine have so far been unsuccessful, but if there were an end to the war, what would that look like for Ukraine? It ...

By Samuel Cornell, Brooke Nickel and Sean Docking If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products – they’ve set ...

“Nato is responding with unity and strength,” said British defence secretary John Healey. “If you’ve got drones that are putting Polish lives at risk, then Nato will take them ...

If you have been a fan of the hugely popular TV series Succession, then the Board machinations at the Federal Reserve will blow your mind. Control over the Board of ...

By Flora Alexandrou A few days ago, Andreas Papacharalambous, former mayor of Strovolos and apparently the president’s favourite author, announced he was joining the far-right Elam. After ditching Disy ...

Reform is the party to watch in UK and its leader, Nigel Farage, who was an also-ran in previous elections, is now an elected MP and odds-on favourite at 7/4 to ...

NOBODY will be shedding any tears for the departure of the meddlesome and self-important commissioner for the protection of personal data, Irini Loizidou-Nicolaidou, who did not have her contract renewed ...

The government could not have made a bigger mess of the negotiations on the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA) if it had planned it. It has managed to alienate the unions by ...

By Malak Benslama-Dabdoub The UN’s independent international commission of inquiry has just released a report that may go down as one of the most significant documents in modern international ...

We are in no position to say whether our defence capability has been significantly strengthened by the arrival of the Israeli Barak MX air defence system. It may have marginally ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou may have been appointed by President NiKos Christodoulides, but this did not stop him slamming the government’s proposals for the radical reform of the audit service. ...

One of the main criticisms of the tax reform, which the government wants to have in place from the start of next year, is that it has left wealth untouched. ...

During the Cold War, the domino effect meant a political chain reaction. It still applies with Donald Triumphant in the White House wanting dictatorial control of power; he commands and ...

Only the Cyprus problem could have produced the situation in which the two sides are discussing the opening of more crossing points while at the same time, through their actions ...

If Donald Trump were a religious man, he might have said “There but for the grace of God go I” when he heard that former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has ...

Former Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos, predictably, denied any wrongdoing and defiantly declared that he was “spotlessly clean,” after the release of the investigation into the allegations of corruption made against ...

Cyprus was bracing for a non-traditional type of war this week. A confrontation between employers and workers over the demand by Unions for restoring the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (CoLA or ATA ...

There are three main criticisms of the proposed tax reform. First, it is not directed at meeting the medium to longer-term government revenue and expenditure needs of Cyprus and is ...

Dear editor, Since our government can’t manage the most basic care of our little island, Cyprus, how can we possibly take care of the EU? [Cyprus will assume the ...

In the editorial ‘Our View: Presidential platitudes will not see GSI progress’ [September 9] you state that “Cyprus, which will benefit the most from GSI, is refusing to play ball and ...