Our View: We should heed Holguin’s words and look to the future
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 ...
The EU must unite to confront threats and overcome divisions
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 ...
Our View: Is reunification too big a risk to take?
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 ...
Our view: Hopefully, new law will end farce of politicians’ asset declarations
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’ ...
Why is it so difficult for women in power to dress ‘correctly’?
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 ...
Our View: Annita Demetriou is a force to be reckoned with
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 ...
The heat of war
‘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 ...
Arms race gathers pace as Russia and US plan to redeploy once-banned weapons
Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s – a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within ...
Our View: No point discussing early retirement when decisions have been taken
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Tuesday that the 12 per cent penalty imposed on pensions taken two years before the legal retirement age of 65 cannot be abolished. If it were, ...
Our View: Recycled rhetoric dominates 50th anniversary of coup and invasion
In a special session of the House of Representatives on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of ‘twin crime’ of the coup and occupation attended by the president, the party ...
No comeback for Biden, he is now a lost cause
It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his ...
EU economy: security aspects becoming increasingly important
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The world economy is currently performing better than expected. The recession, which many analysts had predicted as an inevitable result of the pandemic and ...
Open letter to children and youth of Cyprus – how to spend summer break 2024
by Oya Kocak Barcin and Christoforos Dimitriou
We, Oya and Christoforos know each other through our work. We live on opposite sides of the divide in Cyprus, have different backgrounds ...
Turkish Invasion: 50 years
Did we really need to have so many episodes of violence?
I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...
Cyprus banks falling far short in social responsibility
Cyprus banks are failing in giving decent interest rates on customer deposits and in providing sufficient credit at reasonable interest rates to businesses and households to support balanced economic growth ...
Holguin’s mission impossible proved just that
Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: UN envoy correctly identifies Cypriot pig-headedness
THE NEXT personal envoy the UN Secretary General sends to find common ground will have to be a shrink, now that Maria Angela Holguin has established that the reasons there ...
President Macron’s gamble
By Maria Demertzis
When the extreme right party National Rally won first place in the European elections earlier this June, President Emmanuel Macron felt that confidence in the governing coalition ...
Turkish invasion: 50 years
Our View: Hollow rhetoric been political constant for 50 years
On Monday Cyprus will mark the 50th anniversary of the coup against Archbishop Makarios and on Saturday the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion that followed it and led to ...
Our View: Public to bear financial burden of government missteps
A divorce settlement is being negotiated between Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) and the CPP-Metron Consortium (CMC) which had the contract for the creation of an LNG terminal in Vassiliko. ...
Our View: Akel’s approach threatens ruin of public hospitals
The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...
How Roblox impacts how we interact online
By Natalie Coulter
Roblox is an online platform that allows users to create games and play those designed by others. A self-described “ultimate virtual universe,” it is hard to pinpoint ...
Our View: Anastasiades’ public outbursts further tarnish legacy
Former president Nicos Anastasiades may be under the illusion that by speaking out in public he is protecting his legacy and the way his ten years in office would be ...
Finding balance: Practicing mindful screen time in the digital age
Practicing mindfulness with our screens in the digital age has become increasingly crucial. As someone who, like many, has felt the pang of anxiety upon leaving my phone behind, I ...