Opinion

By Emily Petrou Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. The best way to ...

Fidias Panayiotou, the 24-year-old, proudly apolitical YouTuber and TikToker with a natural talent for self-publicity, completely dominated Sunday’s elections for the European parliament. His independent candidacy, which offered literally ...

Europe’s nationalist parties capitalised in the European Parliament election on voter disquiet over spiralling prices, migration and the cost of the green transition and will now seek to translate ...

During the negative political climate that followed the rejection of the Annan plan in 2004, a politically idiotic soundbite became very popular, calling for the “end of the policy of the ...

It is clear from the spectacular failure of almost all major high profile projects this year that the whole system of tendering and awarding such projects is in disrepair and ...

President Joe Biden was in Normandy in France this week for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6 in which he gave a speech that drew a parallel ...

THE BIGGEST news story over last few days has been that it was very hot. As if anyone in Kyproulla had not felt the scorching heat and had to be ...

After coming to live in Cyprus quite a few years ago, my husband and I decided that we would ‘do our bit’ to help with saving water! (In England, we’...

There is only one issue in today’s European parliament elections. How strong will the nationalist parties of the far right emerge? This has been the main talking point of ...

I’ve lived in Cyprus for many years and own a property in Paphos. My income is a pension that goes straight to a Cyprus bank and I am a ...

By Peter Cooney and Steve Gorman Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed “Earthrise” photo during Nasa’s ...

By Joseph Curti and Morgan Tingley The Earth is losing animals, plants and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction. ...

By Ioannis Tirkides This moment in the European elections is very different from the last one, five years ago. The starting conditions are different, the challenges are different. The priorities ...

It was surprising the Cyprus News Agency correspondent in New York reported that the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin would continue her mission in Cyprus for another ...

The European Central Bank (ECB), as had been widely expected, reduced interest rates in the euro zone. It was a small reduction of 25 basis points, bringing the ECB’s key ...

By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski In the pantheon of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stands as an unrivalled icon. This half-length portrait is more than just an ...

Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit religious order. Since last week, he’s ...

Pressure on the government to take in the 27 migrants trapped in the buffer zone for close to a week is being stepped up by Unficyp and the UNHCR. On Wednesday, ...

This once-teen devoured sci-fi novels and it’s revelatory to watch as what knowledgeable and imaginative writers predicted becomes reality. Applications then lacked tech innovation, but with time, AI has ...

The Nicosia municipal swimming pool will be closed for the fifth consecutive summer season in 2024. This is because the public bodies are singularly unable to manage a project with a ...

It was technology that got us into this global climate crisis, and it will be technology that gets us out of it. Specifically, technology that lets us go on living ...

One of the key adjectives the president and his ministers routinely use to describe their policies is ‘anthropocentric’, or human-centred. It is one of those words, loved by the current ...

Cyprus’ participation in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has become a subject of discussion by political analysts only in recent years. Some consider it a mistaken and damaging choice, while others ...

Unficyp should have asked Turkey and UK to foot their bill as well as Cyprus and Greece By Fahri Zihni The United Nations (UN) has three key principles for its ...