Opinion

In the editorial ‘Our View: Presidential platitudes will not see GSI progress’ [September 9] you state that “Cyprus, which will benefit the most from GSI, is refusing to play ball and ...

In response to article ‘Cyprus MEPs say ‘abandoned’ by the EU over Limassol wildfire’ on September 9: The single biggest issue in the handling of the fire was the failure in ...

The world has been transfixed by the case of Erin Patterson: the Australian woman convicted of mass murder, having brutally killed three members of her family using death cap mushrooms, ...

I’ll get to the Russian drones shot down over Poland, but I’ll start with the Israeli air strikes on Qatar because that’s a much bigger deal. Israel ...

Peter Mandelson’s excellent relations with US President Donald Trump could not save his job as UK’s ambassador in Washington. Guilt by association owing to his close friendship with ...

I KNOW that in the era of wokeness we must always be kind and take not even a little pleasure in the woes of others, but it is extremely difficult ...

The noise surrounding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) may have died down after the exchanges between the governments of Greece and Cyprus over the previous weeks, but the problem has ...

Some things never change in Cyprus. A couple of days ago, at a House committee meeting with all the representatives invited, complained about the obstacles faced by foreign investors. The ...

A major disagreement surfaced at the House on Wednesday when Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, presented the provisions of the bills for the reform of the Legal Service. The reform would ...

The European Union is failing a basic test of credibility. For months, it has decried Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank as unlawful, yet it has taken ...

The CoLA dispute, thanks to which there will be a national three-hour work stoppage on Thursday affecting airports, hospitals, schools, public transport and inconveniencing tens of thousands of people, does ...

Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

Just when more and more businesses are recognising the disadvantages of ‘work from home’, the Cyprus government has decided to introduce it in the public service. In fact, in many ...

There is no ‘New World Order’, although there is certainly a new world disorder. The ‘rules-based international order’ that was created after the Second World War, mainly under American leadership, ...

The government has displayed astonishing ineptitude and amateurishness in the way it has dealt with the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI). Even worse, President Nikos Christodoulides has shown a staggering lack ...

It has been a tumultuous week for energy in Cyprus. Its two biggest projects, the import of LNG at Vasilikos and the GSI electrical interconnector, were in the limelight mostly ...

In a recent article, we discussed the short-term effects of President Trump’s economic policies on global equity and bond markets. Today, we will try to analyse the long-term effects, ...

In Tom Cleaver’s article (Cyprus Mail, September 1), Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said he feels satisfied and proud about “efforts made by the Greek foreign ministry at the United ...

Thanks to the Cyprus Mail giving space to my previous rants, I can report further that I lost my case with the newly re-organised Larnaca local district administration in the ...

By Dimitris Eleas When I was a child in Greece, I remember my father saying, “Chinese steel breaks – cuts – like bread.” (I’m not sure if he himself still remembers ...

By Flora Alexandrou As scholars remind us, national identity is not a fixed concept, nor does it have a single agreed interpretation. It shifts with time, place and circumstance, and ...

Cyprus’ GDP is growing rapidly and banks are making big profits, but is the welfare of most people benefiting from such developments? The answer is a definite no as the ...

If Cyprus has problems of identity so too does the UK Flags and national anthems were in the news in UK and Cyprus lately in ways that caused mild but ...

THERE are still two-and-a-half years for the presidential elections but the scheming and plotting by rival blocks has already started. It was therefore no surprise to see an article by ...