Opinion

By Charles Ellinas Earlier in July, the EU published its ‘European Innovation Performance Scoreboard 2024’ and in June the IMF published its new ‘AI Preparedness Index Dashboard’. Both put Cyprus in ...

The national guard celebrated its 60th birthday on Thursday by holding manoeuvres in Zygi in the presence of President Nikos Christodoulides and the Minister of Defence Vasilis Palmas, both of ...

The European Commission acknowledged in its rule of law report for 2024 that some progress had been made by Cyprus in tackling long term weaknesses of the system of justice, but ...

By Steven Greenland and Robert Joseph Gill The cost of hosting Paris 2024, the 33rd Olympics, is predicted to be more than €8.6billion. So what’s in it for the French? ...

It was difficult to understand the indignant reaction of tourism stakeholders to a report that appeared in the UK’s Daily Express claiming there was panic in the sector because ...

I can hardly hide my excitement: it looks like we’re finally getting a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada! Nearly two decades after Miranda Priestly’s icy “that’s ...

Apart from complaints by farmers, little has been said in public about the acute water shortage facing the country. It is almost as if it is no problem for the ...

Pasydy, the public servants’ union, issued an announcement last Thursday “expressing satisfaction” for the agreement with the finance ministry for a 1.5 per cent pay rise in the civil service from ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to show swing voters that his likely new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, has her fingerprints all over two issues he is counting ...

During the last two months two major reports were released reviewing world energy. First was the Energy Institute’s (EI) ‘Statistical review of world energy 2024’ published in June, followed by ...

Friday’s global IT outage – caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike – wrought havoc on business operations around the world. Severe disruptions were reported in multiple countries, ...

Sir, There has been much discussion about motorists being ‘trapped’ by the new traffic light and camera systems. I offer my experience as further unfairness. Along the Larnaca-Dhekelia road, a ...

Dear Sirs, On the 13th of July, I planned to travel from Radisson Beach Hotel bus station to Limassol. I arrived at the bus stop with my dog at 6:50am, ...

His [Akel’s Giorgos Georgiou, who voted against the European Parliament’s resolution for continued support for Ukraine] vote indirectly supports the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in that he voted ...

By George Georgiou Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Marcellus That one may smile and smile and be a villain Hamlet, Act 1 All imperial powers eventually wither away. ...

President Biden should resign in favour of women candidates Where were you when an all American boy from Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate former US president and candidate for president Donald ...

I HAVE to say, at the risk of being labelled unpatriotic, that all this fuss about the 50th anniversary of the coup and invasion has become quite boring. It is ...

Now that we have marked the 50th anniversaries of the coup and Turkish invasion, we should heed the advice of the UNSG’s envoy Maria Angela Holguin, who said in ...

By Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Jeromin Zettelmeyer After every European election, Bruegel produces a series of memos to the new European Commissioners that will take office in Brussels. The first ...

It is exactly 50 years today that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, was launched and within a few weeks – by August 16 – the offensive was completed, with the invasion force spreading eastwards ...

Hopefully, we witnessed the last episode of the farce regarding the submission of asset statements by elected officials on Tuesday. For 20 years, within the framework of the so-called ‘pothen esches’ ...

By Ashley Morgan As Angela Rayner arrived to take up her new role as Britain’s deputy prime minister, some online commentators went into meltdown – not because of her historic ...

When House president Annita Demetriou took over as leader of the deeply divided Disy, in the aftermath of the presidential elections, she was viewed as a temporary solution – a caretaker ...

‘In the burnt earth I lay weeping, I had lost all my humanity. In the scorched earth, like a wounded animal, wondering where was my life and the person I ...