Opinion

Leaving aside the series of setbacks to the installation of smart electricity meters involving tenders, courts and the potential loss of EU funding, news out of the UK recently presents ...

Newly re-elected Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s reign. But in some ways, he is following in the footsteps of ...

Be warned: Cyprus motorists could be hit with hikes of 25 cents/litre by the end of the year By Charles Ellinas With Cyprus finance minister announcing that he will not ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi Ukraine categorically rejects the accusations, put forth by Russian officials claiming Ukraine`s involvement in the shooting at the Crocus concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. We ...

Nonsense to suggest Israel is fighting an existential war By Fahri Zihni The mediaeval Islamic cleric and wiseman Nasreddin Hodja’s fables and parables, which have evolved over centuries have ...

Erdogan’s party seeks advantage as Turkey’s local elections coincide with Ramadan By Ozan Aksoy Millions of voters in Turkey will head to the polls on Sunday to elect ...

By Roberta Metsola Summer 2024 will be the largest global election year in history. Much of the world’s population will be called upon to vote, including the people of Cyprus ...

The provision and painting of designated, new parking spaces on “side roads” in the Strovolos municipality is turning these roads into one-way lanes. This is particularly the case on Athinodorou ...

If I were the British interior minister, I would deport Assange to Australia and let them extradite him to the US if they can By Alper Ali Riza Julian Assange ...

AFTER a year in office, Prezniktwo has successfully established the communications model of government, with a big emphasis on presentation, positive messaging and minimal action. Even the police force is ...

The formalising of cooperation on countering money laundering and sanctions violations between the governments of Cyprus and the United States, announced last week is of historic significance. Close, structured cooperation ...

The Audit Office, under Odysseas Michaelides, has done some very important work in exposing corruption and incompetence over the years. For this he has been justifiably praised by the parties, ...

By Marios Eliades The European People’s Party (EPP), which groups together the Centre-Right parties of the European Union, held its congress in Bucharest about two weeks ago. As expected, ...

For this government, an unpopular measure must be accompanied by something positive, at least communications-wise, because it wants to minimise the criticism by media and opposition parties, which would have ...

By Samantha Dodson and Rachael Dailey Goodwin Former US President Donald Trump has faced dozens of sexual misconduct allegations over the decades. He’s the first president to be held ...

The police command has put in force an action plan, which is aimed at “prevention and elimination of serious and organised crime.” Details of the plan, which came into force ...

The recent flurry of rumours and speculation about the health and status of King Charles III serves as a fascinating case study in the power of the internet to rapidly ...

There are three incipient famines in the world today, and politics is at the root of all of them. That’s not unusual, actually: famines are almost always political events. ...

Nobody could doubt President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to cleaning up the bad name Cyprus has acquired over the years as a country that facilitated money laundering – what is also referred ...

By Shaun Narine Many observers of American politics are understandably terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected president of the United States in November. The US is already ...

The main challenges currently facing the EU are sluggish growth, low levels of investment, slow adaptation of technology, tight labour markets, as well as over-reliance on conventional forms of energy ...

Implementation of the Directive in Cyprus likely to have notable impacts By Kyriaki Stinga and Emilios Charalambous The year 2023 marked 30 years since the establishment of the European Single Market and ...

By Yi Xin On February 24, the Ukraine crisis marked its two-year anniversary. Despite the bloodshed on the battlefield and suffering of innocent lives, fighting continues with no sign of abating. ...

Thursday March 21 was International Day Against Racism and Discrimination. Racism which is a form of prejudice that includes negative emotional reactions to members of a group, and racial discrimination against ...