Opinion

Ten years have passed since the bailout, which devastated the economy, and seven have passed since the country exited the assistance programme that was imposed by the international lenders. Although ...

The allegations of corruption in Cyprus football surface every once in a while, triggering a surge of critical articles in the media and indignant comments by politicians. Nothing is ever ...

One of the tenets of perfect competition, in economic theory, is that consumers have perfect or full information. Of course, the model of perfect competition exists only in theory, but ...

By Nathan Abrams A quarter of a century ago, on May 14, 1998, the final episode of Seinfeld was broadcast, ending one of the most significant sitcoms of all time after nine ...

After the inexplicable level of deference President Nikos Christodoulides showed to the auditor-general over government appointments it was expected that he would not take a stand in the public row ...

It has been a week since the Eurovision Song Contest, but the dust has not settled after the Greek jury awarded the Cyprus entry only 4 points, causing a bit of ...

Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last week when Arab states readmitted Syria to the Arab League, signaling to ...

It would have been a big surprise if President Christodoulides had gone to his first Pasydy conference not bearing gifts. Pandering to the civil servants at their annual conference is ...

The Sunday before last, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced, out of the blue, that natural gas would be sent from Israel’s gas fields by pipeline to Cyprus, ...

As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies ...

The euro is the second largest reserve currency, but so far the dollar still reigns supreme By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Since the end of World War II, the ...

By Gwynne Dyer I was one of five children – not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time – and there was one year when we allegedly beat ...

By Charles Barthold French president Emmanuel Macron is facing a political crisis unprecedented in contemporary times. Pierre Rosanvallon, one of the country’s most influential political theorists (and a man ...

The idea that assisting in the death of the terminally ill is tantamount to murder is morally repugnant Crime and punishment is about prohibited intentional acts that deserve to be ...

LAST Sunday’s Diko conference turned into a love-in, party leader Junior exercising zero restraint in his public adulation of his new political idol – Prez Nik II. “If you did ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides, last Wednesday, at the House legal affairs committee presented the bill on Legal Service of the Republic, which will give complete autonomy and independence to the service. ...

Elzbieta Witek, the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, who visited Cyprus this week, said that the ongoing war in Ukraine raises a big security issue for ...

Speaking on state radio on Friday morning about the US and UK sanctions, economics professor Marios Zachariades made a very valid point. He said there was either compliance or non-compliance ...

In the last year and a half of his presidency, Nicos Anastasiades had made the appointment of a special envoy by the UN Secretary-General his main Cyprus problem objective. He ...

By Fernando Valladares Climate change is a global problem. Its origin is less so, however, because we do not all contribute equally: the countries that suffer the most from the ...

When sanctions were imposed on two Cypriot companies that had been providing legal and administrative services to Russian oligarchs, a month ago, banks immediately froze all the accounts linked to ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Weight is a constant in the lives of people who don’t conform to what experts and beauty addicts maintain is the correct number of kilos. ...

There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the murderous Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended twelve years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission ...

When a president messes up an appointment of a state official, as Nicos Anastasiades had done in the case of the president of the commission for the protection of competition, ...