Opinion

The public servants union Pasydy issued an announcement on Tuesday expressing its “intense displeasure” over the legislature’s approval of regulations, which deprive its members and their families (as well ...

Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian ...

After 19 years of investigations by police, forensic pathologists and lawyers, three death inquiries, applications to the Cyprus supreme court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a judge ruled ...

This is the second time this year I feel compelled to write about the development of – or lack of – the Aphrodite gas field. This is the fifth attempt made by ...

In the third article looking at the Cyprus problem from a diplomatic viewpoint, Andreas Pirishis examines the long-standing hostility towards the US and UK During the first years of its ...

By Sarah Marsh and Kate Abnett The black-clad attackers beat up Matthias Ecke so badly as he put up posters in Dresden that he needed surgery. In Nordhorn, a man ...

Supporting a global economic recovery and green development By Liu Yantao The “China collapse” and “China has peaked” rhetoric seems to be resurfacing recently in a part of the world. ...

“Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand. This year it went further east, ...

Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...

ONLY our political parties, in their infinite wisdom, could have engaged in a cost-cutting reform that will increase the cost to the taxpayer. The reform of local government, on which ...

The UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angel Holguin has still to find the common ground that would lead to new talks on the Cyprus problem. Her comments, after last ...

By Steve Holland US President Joe Biden spent months urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect Gaza civilians, but the US decision to pause some military aid to Israel ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Following successive interest rate hikes and the policy of gradual quantitative easing in the developed economies over the last two years, emerging macroeconomic conditions ...

The House plenum on Friday unanimously rejected the president’s referral of the law giving the power to the chief of police to appoint a person of his/her choice ...

Cyprus has many reasons to celebrate Europe Day and, most importantly, 20 years of membership of the European Union. There is no doubt that as a country we have grown up ...

It defies belief that more than two dozen police officers raided a hotel in Paphos to check for workers employed illegally. Such a large number of police officers would not ...

In an interview given of the occasion of May Day, Sotiroulla Charalambous, the general secretary of the Akel union federation Peo, felt duty-bound to talk about important Marxist ideas such ...

In his second article, looking at the Cyprus problem from the viewpoint of a career diplomat, Andreas Pirishis, challenges the popular claim that foreign governments were always working against the ...

The depletion of equity through a dysfunctional banking system leads to a separation of ownership from entrepreneurship and by the relentless pursuit of the wealthy of a return without the ...

By Maria Demertzis We are only halfway through the implementation of the NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RFF), so the final judgment on its success is still to come. However, ...

Israeli leaders are waiting with bated breath to find out if the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to issue arrest warrants against some of them for ...

Why Europe’s current nuclear deterrents may not be enough to face biggest threats since WWII By Natasha Lindstaedt Though a second Trump presidency is not a foregone conclusion, Nato ...

Following successive interest rate hikes and the policy of gradual quantitative easing in the developed economies over the last two years, emerging macroeconomic conditions appear to be conducive for a ...

Research shows cognitive differences between generations are diminishing By Stephen Badham We often assume young people are smarter, or at least quicker, than older people. For example, we’ve all ...