Our View: EU Commission is right to put an end to VAT cut abuse
The European Commission has informed the government that it does not accept the formula put together by the parliamentary parties for VAT on the construction...
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Our View: We are dangerously close to returning to pre-bailout fiscal spending
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...
Our View: New allegations of corruption in football – the same old story
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...
Our View: New energy plans must be explained
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...
Our View: Is the audit office in charge of everything?
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...
Our View: Government’s stance on sanctions is commendable
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...
Our View: Caught in sanctions’ crossfire
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...
Our View: Presidents acting outside the law will get no respect from citizens
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...
Our View: No significance to be read into Eurovision
An ongoing joke at the Eurovision Song Contest was that when marks were given out by each country, it was a near certainty that Cyprus...
Our View: Could Famagusta property sales be stopped?
The issue of Israelis investing in the occupied north was raised by President Nikos Christodoulides at Wednesday’s meeting – his first – with Israeli prime...
