Death Rattle of a Superpower?
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single ...
Our View: Cancelling large projects is costing the tax payer millions
The Christodoulides government has made a habit of pulling the plug on several public projects, regardless of the cost to the taxpayer. The most high profile termination was the Vassiliko ...
Cyprus’ energy failures mainly down to vested interests at a political level
Energy is one of the most critical sectors in Cyprus, impacting everyday life, the economy, industry and almost everything else on the island. And yet, it is one of the ...
Even the most self-aggrandising rulers can achieve peace
Events in the Gulf war continue to attract global attention, despite the ongoing preoccupation here in Cyprus with our own Sandy-gate saga.
President Trump has maintained a barrage of announcements, ...
Thirty years on: rethinking Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations
Thirty years on, why revisit Professor Samuel Huntington’s seminal and widely debated book, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996?
Not to celebrate a ...
Scientific study forms a good basis for economic policy
In the EU, a significant number of existing high‑level research centres focus on empirical studies of issues of public economic interest. Such centres aim to support, in a practical ...
Cyprus’ social media ban is really about digital identity
By Andreas Shialaros
On Thursday, President Nikos Christodoulides announced that Cyprus will ban social media for children under 15, joining Greece, and potentially Turkey, in a wave of similar measures sweeping ...
Support offered for the impact of war is woefully inadequate
President Nikos Christodoulides and Finance Minister Makis Keravnos brag frequently about the successful performance and good management of the economy by citing the relatively rapid growth of GDP and the ...
Law clients’ right to legal professional privilege is sacrosanct
Early on Easter Saturday a team of police officers raided the home of the well-known lawyer Nikos Clerides in Nicosia, armed with a search warrant issued by a judge shortly ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: We have all become ‘Sandinistas’
THE COFFEESHOP was closed for Easter when Politis published the story about Black Cube, the Israeli company which was behind the production of the video in which associates of the ...
Our View: ‘Sandy’ probe must be carried out without social media distractions
Almost three weeks have passed since journalist Makarios Drousiotis posted the allegations made by the woman dubbed ‘Sandy’. Much has happened since then, including the categorical public denials by the ...
The Iran war revisited: what if America loses?
The 2026 Iran War marks a turning point in modern geopolitics and shows how the West’s attempts to maintain dominance through military intervention destabilise the region, hastening the rise of ...
Our View: Endless extensions turn hotel licensing into farce
The joke about the licensing of hotels and other tourist premises continued on Thursday when the legislature approved a government bill to extend the operation of these illegal establishments for ...
Our View: Government posturing repeated over ‘violations’ of buffer zone
Calm appears to have returned to the buffer zone in the Pyla area, Unficyp having taken control of the situation. Much was made by the Cyprus government of the incursion ...
Our View: Big signs must be put on all buildings registered as unsafe
It seems that tragedy must strike before the authorities recognise the existence of a problem and decide that dealing with it cannot be put off any longer. In the latest ...
Hungary: is the tide turning for populists?
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent a message congratulating Hungary’s newly elected prime minister, Peter Magyar, for having evicted long-serving populist leader Viktor Orban (aka ‘The Viktator’) from power. ...
Our View: Cyprus police again going after the messenger
There are times when the decisions and actions of the law enforcement authorities do not stand up to rational scrutiny. The visit, in the early hours of Easter Saturday, by ...
Power, illusion and the Thucydides warning
Power rarely collapses from weakness. It collapses from the consequences of misjudgement. The confrontation between the US and Israel with Iran may prove to be one of those moments.
My ...
The obstacle is no longer Turkey – it is Christodoulides
By Nikolas Xenofontos
Nikos Christodoulides recently stated that “the EU has the tools to demonstrate the benefits of a solution to Turkey, which holds the key to solving the Cyprus ...
Democracy at risk: what the EIU 2025 index reveals about Cyprus
In a previous article, we examined the concentration of power and erosion of democracy in Cyprus. This article advances that discussion, focusing on the 2025 Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence ...
Our View: Focus on video’s source obscures corruption claims
The investigative committee, under former supreme court judge Andreas Paschalides, has discovered the creators of the 12-minute video which exposed the ‘money for access to the president’ methods. Black Cube, ...
Our View: Disy blurs opposition role with pro-government rhetoric
The leader of Disy and House president Annita Demetriou is increasingly sounding like a spokesperson of the government, even though her party is theoretically in opposition. This stance is very ...
Brussels’ open door — and who’s walking through it
By Sébastien Laye
Cyprus holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union at a moment when Brussels’ much-celebrated openness is facing a test it has so far ...
Our View: US-Iran must keep talking as failure would be devastating
Mercifully, the whole civilisation did not die in the early hours of Wednesday as had been predicted by President Donald Trump. It will survive for at least another fortnight, the ...