Opinion

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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allegations about underage sex, corrupt judges, big pay-offs and a secret brotherhood of politicians operating in the shadows that were posted on X some 10 days ago have been dominating the ...

We don’t have to look very far to find a useful historical analogy for the current crisis in the Middle East. In 1967 Egypt closed the Strait of Tiran to ...

For several decades, anyone with a university degree was eligible to become a public school teacher, regardless of their abilities. All that was required was a bachelors degree from a ...

By Theodoros Zachariadis, professor at the Cyprus Institute Imagine that meat prices rise by 30 per cent, whether due to foot-and-mouth disease or energy costs. This creates serious inflationary pressures throughout ...

Cyprus EEZ came back into the limelight on the occasion of EGYPES, Egypt’s annual and foremost energy conference and exhibition that took place in Cairo this week. And in ...

A couple of weeks ago, we had the joy of our granddaughter staying over for a few days. That Friday night, worrying about the escalating war, I sat watching her ...

By Nikolas Xenofontos In Cyprus, we have learned to view the Cyprus problem through the lens of history, justice and international law. We speak of invasion, occupation and violations of ...

Advances in technology have enabled the rapid spread of information and knowledge, but, at the same time, they have amplified the phenomenon of misinformation and the circulation of false news. ...

The Republic of Cyprus is currently at a significant constitutional juncture. The legislative debate on amending Article 17 of the Constitution, which guarantees the secrecy of correspondence, for a new surveillance ...

What special relationship! David Dimbleby the veteran British broadcaster exclaimed rhetorically on being asked about the illusion of the special relationship between Britain and the USA. There never was a ...

By Yiannis Misirlis In every housing cycle, markets search for a villain. Today, in Cyprus, the spotlight has turned toward foreign, particularly non-European, buyers. The policy response now under discussion, ...

WHAT could a poor weekly columnist write as click-bait when in the last few days, the news was dominated by sensational allegations about corrupt judges, child rape, illegitimate children, big ...

With parliamentary elections less than two months away, the scare stories about the composition of the new House are becoming more frequent, especially as opinion polls suggest there could be ...

The shortage of nursing staff is in the region of 600 according to Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides, who has been trying to solve the problem caused by the public sector nursing ...