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Measures to encourage greater participation and dialogue are crucial to ensuring that citizens feel included and represented, President Nikos Christodoulides said during a roundtable discussion on the current state of ...

By Gavin Jones Demagogues have a tendency to appear, thrive and seduce the public with their populist messages which tend to focus at most on two or three major topics. ...

In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed the results in two European elections that will change the way the EU will be moving forward. In Hungary, the 16-year ...

Democracy must not only be taught in classrooms but also lived in everyday practice, Citizens’ rights commissioner Panayiotis Palates said on Tuesday presenting a study on democratic education. Pupils, teachers, ...

By Ifigenia Theodoridou Cyprus slipped three places in its score for the Democracy Index 2024, ranking 40th out of 167 countries. The index, developed by Economist Intelligence, listed Cyprus as a flawed ...

The political system was overjoyed on Wednesday by the council of ministers’ decision to lower the voting age to 17. The decision inspired the familiar and tired rhetoric about broadening democratic ...

In a move aimed at addressing challenges faced by the media sector, President Nikos Christodoulides, announced an initiative for dialogue with all involved stakeholders to find solutions to the sector’...

By Mark Bendeich Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the ...

President Joe Biden was in Normandy in France this week for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6 in which he gave a speech that drew a parallel ...

By Stephania Xenophontos The growing intrusion of social media into the political scene has helped to undermine the sustenance of democracy. Although, in essence, politics is a constant competition where ...

Over half of Cypriots are dissatisfied with the way democracy operates in their country, a proportion exceeding the average dissatisfaction rate in the European Union, Eurobarometer data showed on Wednesday. ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will discuss migration issues on Tuesday, in Madrid, with his Spanish counterpart, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez. According to a press release, during their meeting the two ...

It is imperative to identify the challenges affecting democratic societies and to listen to the needs of the people, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday addressing the 2023 Summit for Democracy, ...

Cyprus has been classed as a ‘flawed democracy’, ranking 37th in the list of countries analysed by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2022 Democracy Index. The position on the table ...

Cyprus has been classed as a ‘flawed democracy’, dropping to its lowest level since 2014 on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2021 Democracy Index. The overall picture globally, according to the ...

Opposition on Thursday called for caution over updating the 1923 law on infectious diseases to avoid restricting basic freedoms, with Akel arguing that lack of proper definitions of some words makes ...

At first I was going to write about the ‘Arab Problem’, because there is not a single functioning democracy in the Arab world. This week’s presidential coup in Tunisia ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Reports and post-programme surveillance following Cyprus’ exit from the bailout agreement praised sustained economic growth at rates far higher than expected. Progress was also made on ...