Opinion

By Euripides L Evriviades When Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his emblematic work The Prince in 1513, he was dissecting the raw mechanics of realpolitik in an age of fragile states, restless rulers ...

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...

PREZNIKONE appears to be on a mission to prove to the few remaining idiots that still think there is a hint of honesty in what he says are making a ...

The visit of Tufan Erhurman, the newly elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots, to Ankara on Thursday for his eagerly awaited meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan must have disappointed all ...

There was another twist to the saga of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) on Wednesday at the third intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece in Athens, which, apart from the ...

As if to underline its skill at presentation and marketing, the government has repeatedly referred to its proposed reform of the tax regime as a ‘flagship project’ and as ‘emblematic ...

Akel, which has raised the alarm on several occasions recently about the property purchases by third country nationals, has submitted two bills to the legislature aimed at restricting these transactions. ...

I’ve known a man for years, in great shape, great life, his own home, children settled, housed, grandchildren highly educated, he sailed through life. Yet he rattles on about ...

The government should take note of the warning issued by president of the Fiscal Council, Michalis Persianis, in the preface of the council’s activity report for 2024. Although these were ‘...

When it comes to energy projects, the credibility rating of Cyprus governments is depressingly low. If there is one department in which there has been real continuity between the Anastasiades ...

Are Cypriots sleepwalking into another tragedy, one that could match or even exceed those of 1963–64 and 1974, which resulted in so many deaths, displacements and destitution? In the south of the ...

I would like to respond to some points of the article ‘What do the Greek Cypriots do now?’ by Alper Ali Raza, CM regular columnist, dated 26.10.2025, which refer to Cyprus. ...

My wife bought a house in Avgorou in 2011. It was paid for in full; she has the receipts. The contract was deposited with the Land Registry, and in 2016 she applied ...

By Flora Alexandrou The Cypriot government continues to prioritise image over substance, relying on symbolic gestures to suggest progress while advancing at a crawl on real reform in gender equality. ...

By Theo Theophanous and Takis Christodoulou We write as two former politicians of the Cyprus diaspora, one from Australia, one from South Africa, because we passionately believe in a united ...

The Cyprus government is generating large surpluses and accumulating deposits at banks reaching €6.8 billion at the end of September 2025.  And Cyprus banks held cash and cash balances totaling €19.6 billion or ...

Cyprus’ stint at the helm of the rotating presidency a lesson in political equality “The Cypriots know they cannot become a world power; but they have succeeded in becoming a ...

I HAD great difficulty sleeping on Friday night, after hearing that our dear Kyproulla, the pylon of stability and security of the East Med, is “under existential threat.” And this ...

Cyprus will take over the presidency of the EU Council on January 1, 2026, and our government has been making sure there is not a single person on the island who is ...

Chevron-Hellenic Energy Consortium’s selection: A geopolitical analysis for Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean In a very important development, the Chevron-Hellenic Energy consortium has been selected as the preferred investor ...

The Cyprus chamber of commerce (Keve) and the federation of employers and industrialists (Oev) deserve congratulations for turning down the government’s proposal on CoLA. In fact, it was a ...

Many would have thought that President of Fifa, Gianni Infantino was joking when, earlier in the week, he announced his new idea, the ‘Fifa Peace Prize – Football Unites the World.” ...

When deputies attempted to end through legislation the secrecy surrounding the donations made to the charity vehicle run by the president’s wife, Philippa Karsera-Christodoulides, the president refused to sign ...

By George Neokleous The 21st century has undoubtedly brought radical changes to our Mediterranean island. Cyprus is now an urban-based society with around 67 per cent of Cypriots calling one of ...