#Our View

Nothing contained in the European Commission’s latest report on Rule of Law, regarding Cyprus came as a surprise. It was more of the same with some faint praise for ...

The two draft reports of the UN Secretary-General, about his good offices mission and Unficyp clearly state the UN’s position about a new initiative. Antonio Guterres sets his own ...

After three months of much-publicised efforts to secure a more active and leading role by the EU in the resumption of the Cyprus talks, all that President Christodoulides achieved, apart ...

After years of steady decline in its support, the left-wing party Akel has decided it needs to broaden its appeal. Its traditional support-base which was force-fed the Soviet communist ideal ...

Petrol station owners blocked Nicosia roads with tankers on Tuesday to protest the loss of business from those smuggling fuel from the north. They seem to have adjusted their rhetoric. ...

The current fuss over a proposed new luxury hotel complex in Yeroskipou seems almost too familiar, the only twist being that in this case it’s the municipality that’s ...

Now that President Nikos Christodoulides has completed his first 100 days, perhaps he should take a day off. Since being sworn-in, there has not been a day when he did not ...

It was reassuring to hear some voices publicly question President Nikos Christodoulides’ vague utterances about the Cyprus problem during the speech he gave at the European Parliament on Tuesday morning. ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides on Tuesday urged the authorities to take action against hate speech directed at the LGBTIQ+ community. She was responding to screenshots of such posts in the ...

Some societies progress faster than others and things that were deemed acceptable or ignored in the past, no longer are. Cyprus is moving slowly but it’s getting there, and ...

After laying the foundation stone for the campus of the American University of Beirut-Mediterraneo in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said its establishment was “completely aligned with our policy to make ...

After a decade of high-sounding declarations, timelines that fell by the wayside, alliances that came to nothing and ambitious projects on paper – government ambitions for our natural gas reserves have ...

Diagnostics centres and medical labs affiliated to Gesy have been complaining because the unit price they are paid has been steadily falling. Phileleftheros reported that the unit price for diagnostics ...

The establishment of the National Security Council (NSC), which President Nikos Christodoulides believes would help him deal with security and strategy issues, was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday and ...

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 or purchase of a primary ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 would give Greece’s song ‘...

The issue of Israelis investing in the occupied north was raised by President Nikos Christodoulides at Wednesday’s meeting – his first – with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The information was ...