Opinion

But the Turkish side needs to be persuaded that although the RoC and Greece are EU members and Turkey and the ‘TRNC’ are outsiders, the EU is not institutionally biased ...

One cannot fault the energy minister for lack of ideas, other than his fixation on natural gas. He made that his priority immediately on taking over the ministry, as the ...

The current fuss over a proposed new luxury hotel complex in Yeroskipou seems almost too familiar, the only twist being that in this case it’s the municipality that’s ...

It’s an unpredictable world, that’s for sure! A few days ago the residents in the area between Dali and Potamia, known as Agridi, awoke to the decree that ...

By Uri Gal Germany’s best-selling newspaper, Bild, is reportedly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to replace certain editorial roles, in an effort to cut costs. In a leaked internal email ...

It’s 2023, the height of the digital revolution and here in Cyprus we’re still debating the issue of police body cams, something that was implemented in the UK as ...

The culture of self-interest in Cyprus is evident almost on a daily basis but the past week has been exceptional. Firstly, we had the disgraced Bishop of Kiti who refuses ...

By Helen Pleasance The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing ...

Now that President Nikos Christodoulides has completed his first 100 days, perhaps he should take a day off. Since being sworn-in, there has not been a day when he did not ...

There’s an old tale about a fisherman who was lying on a beautiful beach with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out ...

We’re not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the ...

Farmers were on the streets again on Monday, making a nuisance of themselves, some might say, over EU regulations designed to cut pesticides, a very worthy endeavour it must be ...

By Abdullah Attari The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as ...

In Cyprus we like to think that we ‘think big’. We certainly talk big a lot of the time. We were going to be an energy hub, an education hub, ...

It was announced on Monday that Christos Iacovides, part of the board of directors and a managing director of the MSJ Group, passed away unexpectedly. The MSJ Group describes itself ...

The important parliamentary elections in Greece will take place on June 25. This time, the electoral system will be better balanced between proportionally representing in parliament all the political forces of ...

Accessibility of Gesy providers for people with disabilities is not a given By Efi Xanthou On October 27, 2022, a report from Gesy’s oversight ombudsperson was distributed to various government departments ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...

By Sarah Vivienne Bentley and Claire Naughtin The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in ...

THE RETIRED Nik loved grand gestures. When Odysseas demanded that the interior ministry hand him over 20 files relating to ‘the citizenship by buying a grossly overpriced house scheme,’ and was ...

They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...

By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos As the date of the Nato summit on July 11 in Vilnius approaches, the question of Sweden’s accession to the alliance is gaining currency because of ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Can the language someone uses be as unique as their fingerprints? As I describe in my forthcoming book, “Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity,” ...

A few weeks ago, everyone marked the four years of the national health scheme Gesy, the only public institution that is afforded a birthday celebration every year. We very much ...