Virus exposes EU’s Achilles heel
It was nationally too sensitive to let the European Commission procure vaccines for EU states
To protect from the virus or from the vaccine, that was the question in Europe ...
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Storm in a royal teacup
But it’s become a perfect storm for the head of the Commonwealth
In their interview with the celebrity TV host Oprah Winfrey Prince Harry and Meghan complained they were ...
‘El Diablo’ is banal but by no means blasphemous
Elena is in love with a wide boy and just needs her mama to tell her what to do
By Alper Ali Riza
‘El Diablo’ is a pop song by ...
Very British with a touch of Belgian
The set of ideas attributed to the UK are different from the community power-sharing system that failed miserably in 1963
There is no UK blueprint for a Cyprus settlement. It was ...
Flying the federal flag for Cyprus
Next week, on Wednesday February 24, I shall be flying the federal flag at the second panel webinar organised by the UK-based Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations.
My take is very ...
Investigating China in the year of the Ox
By Alper Ali Riza
Good riddance to 2020, the year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. Welcome to the year of the Ox and hopefully a universal pan corona vaccine.
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The Cyprob should end how it began, with the constitution
NOT many people know that Chrysostomos is one of Mozart’s many names. His full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.
The current Archbishop of Cyprus is also a ...
Two-states or ‘TRNC’ recognition
A distinction without difference?
Is there a difference between a two-state solution and ‘TRNC’ recognition? A webinar organised by the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations last week addressed this impossible ...
President Biden: America leading force for good again
By Alper Ali Riza
Inauguration Day in the US is the living embodiment of the American constitution, which I proffered as a model for Cyprus last week. A model is ...
US model best for Cyprus
An electoral college adapted to Cyprus would allow a political dynamic between Greek and Turkish Cypriots to develop
The UN Secretary-General complained there is no agreement on the model for ...
Arms of government at war in the US
The storming of Capitol Hill in Washington on January 6, 2021 was no storming of the Bastille of 1789. It was no storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd in 1917 either. It changed ...
Brexit is condemned to succeed
The long and winding road, as the Beatles song says, began a long-long time ago
By Alper Ali Riza
URSULA Von Der Leyen, the European Commission President, found the right ...