#Our View

There was no testimony linking the granting of citizenships with donations made to Disy, concluded the independent authority against corruption after its investigation of accusations made by Akel deputy Christos ...

The reform of the pension system is, reportedly, the next big project that will be undertaken by the government, now that it has fully restored CoLA, for the benefit of ...

There is no doubt that under the Nikos Christodoulides presidency, Cyprus’ relations with the United States have drastically improved. The improvement in all fields has been so spectacular that the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

The visit of Tufan Erhurman, the newly elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots, to Ankara on Thursday for his eagerly awaited meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan must have disappointed all ...

As if to underline its skill at presentation and marketing, the government has repeatedly referred to its proposed reform of the tax regime as a ‘flagship project’ and as ‘emblematic ...

Akel, which has raised the alarm on several occasions recently about the property purchases by third country nationals, has submitted two bills to the legislature aimed at restricting these transactions. ...

Cyprus will take over the presidency of the EU Council on January 1, 2026, and our government has been making sure there is not a single person on the island who is ...

The Cyprus chamber of commerce (Keve) and the federation of employers and industrialists (Oev) deserve congratulations for turning down the government’s proposal on CoLA. In fact, it was a ...

Many would have thought that President of Fifa, Gianni Infantino was joking when, earlier in the week, he announced his new idea, the ‘Fifa Peace Prize – Football Unites the World.” ...

Many will have been surprised reading the report that Power Energy Cyprus (PEC), which is building a power station in Vassiliko, and Greece energy company Energean signed a letter of ...

The period of zero VAT on certain basic consumer goods – baby milk, nappies, female hygiene products and frozen fruit and veg – that was due to expire at the end of ...

The attempt by the government to introduce a more honest staff evaluation system in the civil service did not last very long. There was an outcry when it was first ...

The row between municipalities and the central government about the funding of the former is a direct consequence of the half-baked and superficial reform of local authorities carried out by ...

The parties acted sensibly and responsibly in the way they handled the government’s bill for the reform of the Audit Office, which in its original form would have placed ...

In the end, CTP leader Tufan Erhurman won the elections in the north with what could be described as a landslide victory. Although it was widely expected he would win, ...

We do not believe attorney-general George Savvides wants to curtail free speech, the most fundamental principle of a democracy, but the idea he put forward on Tuesday about legislation restricting ...

Government politicians are terrified of strikes in the broader public sector. This is most probably because public sector unions represent large numbers of voters which no politician ever wants to ...

Three construction companies secured 41 percent of public projects in the 10-year period up to 2024, said the Audit Office in a report released on Tuesday. The report also pointed out that ...

For too long, the Republic’s defence spending was rather random. This was partly because only a few countries would sell arms to Cyprus, mainly Russia and France, and partly ...

Many will be wondering whether the Deputy Minister for Innovation, Research and Digitalisation Nicodemos Damianou was joking on Wednesday when he said the government would introduce AI into the public ...

There is still some time to go until the parliamentary elections, but speculative reports based on opinion polls have already been appearing. According to the latest poll conducted by Prime ...

The way President Nikos Christodoulides speaks in public, nobody would have guessed that he had once had a career as a diplomat, that he served for almost five years as ...

Attorney-general George Savvides has been one of the most maligned state officials in Cyprus. For years he has been the target of a campaign instigated by the former auditor-general who ...