Our View
It was no surprise to read that in 2022, social protection and healthcare expenditure, which encompasses inpatient and outpatient care, medicines and sickness benefits, measured...
Our View: Lax controls are bad for business
At a meeting with ministers and other officials last Monday, President Christodoulides revealed that he had tried to secure the services of experts from abroad...
Our View: Investigations by anti-corruption authority are to be welcomed
Former president Nicos Anastasiades issued a statement on Friday, welcoming the decision of the Authority Against Corruption to investigate serious allegations of corruption made against...
Our View: Authorities have made a complete mess in the Akamas
What a complete mess the authorities have made with the road works in the Akamas. It appears that restrictions set out by the environment department,...
Our View: Committees are ineffective budget burdens
The establishment of a committee has become the answer to every problem faced by the government in Cyprus. Nicos Anastasiades started this practice during his...
Our View: EU unanimity hampers decision-making
It came as something of a surprise that there had been no reaction from political parties and the media to President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision not...
Our View: The government has fully cooperated when sanctions were imposed
After a big build-up, the first Cyprus Confidential reports were released on Tuesday evening and more followed on Wednesday. The reports were based on the...
Our View: Pyla road dispute is indicative of Cyprob pettiness
Speaking at the 19th Economist summit in Nicosia, Colin Stewart, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, said the understanding reached between the two sides on the...
Our View: The hazy realities of local government reform
After a great deal of tampering by the political parties the laws that would reform local government were eventually passed by the legislature. But despite...
Our View: Laiki ruling could set a dangerous precedent
Everyone will have been surprised by the Limassol district court’s decision in favour of a Laiki Bank depositor who had sought compensation from the authorities...