Our View: After 15 years in the EU we’ve learnt nothing
May 1 marked the 15th anniversary of Cyprus’ accession to the European Union. It was the biggest achievement of the Clerides government, but the man...
Tassos Papadopoulos
Non-solution caused by Turkish intransigence, Anastasiades says
Failure to find a solution to the Cyprus problem is solely due to the intransigence of Turkey, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. At a...
Annan no vote far from the ‘highest act of dignity’
By Loucas Charalambous THE 13th anniversary of the Annan plan referendum of April 24, 2004 provided an opportunity to the pseudo-patriots of the ‘in-between political...
The Players: Tassos Papadopoulos
Tassos Papadopoluos rallied the Greek Cypriot community in 2004 to reject the Annan Plan (a UN blueprint) to reunify the island as a bizonal, bicommunal...
A state that stifles democratic debate
By George Koumoullis DEMOCRACY is not just about the elections of the president and deputies every five years. More than anything, democracy means debate based...
Our View: Settlement could be revolution against the island’s ancien regime
The way the rejectionist parties are dealing with the possibility of a settlement can be likened to a modern-day equivalent of France’s ancien regime that...
Personal ambitions have made rotating presidency a red line
By Loucas Charalambous ROTATING presidency, we are told, is one of the three “big thorns” preventing the achievement of a settlement. Anastasiades and Akinci both...
Thanks to Tassos, Tymbou airport is not illegal
THE HYPOCRISY of our political and journalistic demagogues reached new levels this week after the earth-shattering secret revealed by Phileleftheros that Greek Cypriot students and...
Our View: Uncompromising patriotism on centre parties keeps amusing
THE WAY the parties of the so-called centre find excuses to churn out their hard-line Cyprus problem rhetoric is quite amusing. They are constantly in...
From victory to annexation
Impermissible blunders, including the selective acceptance of United Nations’ resolutions, has alienated the international community and made Turkey’s annexation of the north a real possibility...
Retired brigadier-general jumps ship, joins ELAM, after failed DIKO bid
Retired army brigadier-general Yiorgos Kyriacou announced on Tuesday that he is joining ELAM after he failed to be elected to the new parliament as a...
AKEL, DIKO have a reason more to celebrate
CENTRIST democratic party DIKO celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday, while communist party AKEL marks its 90th anniversary with a concert on Monday, May 16....
Late president pulled into waste scandal (Updated)
Attorney-general (AG) Costas Clerides on Monday called on any member of the public to come forth with information on the Marathounda and Koshi landfill scandals,...
Attempt to link Tassos to waste scandal ‘reprehensible’, Papadopoulos centre says
The Tassos Papadopoulos Research Centre on Sunday slammed a report in Politis linking the late Cypriot president and close aides of his at the time...
Infighting may cost DIKO dear
The recent wave of refusals by prominent members – and even sitting deputies – to join DIKO’s ticket for the upcoming legislative elections signals the...
Fresh insight into Papadopoulos’ ‘successes’
By Loucas Charalambous IN JUNE 2003, then president Tassos Papadopoulos, in an interview he gave Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand, underlined that “if a solution...
The questions Papadopoulos should be ashamed to ask
By Loucas Charalambous I HAVE written on countless occasions that this country is an open political lunatic asylum. A day does not go by without...
A referendum rerun
By Johan van den Kerkhof Normally I’d steer the hell clear of the Cyprob – yawn – as I dislike adding to the literature and...
The people are solving the Cyprob themselves
By Loucas Charalambous THE IMMOVABLE Property Commission operating in the north has so far paid out a total of €240 million in compensation to Greek...
Can Anastasiades really resume his duties?
By Hermes Solomon FORMULA One racing drivers are known to be among the fittest of men in the world of sport, blessed with lightening reflexes...
