Can Edek find a reason to exist?
Four candidates will be standing in the elections of the leadership of Edek on September 5. The elections were made necessary by the resignation of party leader Nicos Anastasiou, after the ...
Our View: Time for education minister to look at rising numbers of teachers
The number of public sector workers increased by 300 (0.6 per cent) last month, compared to July 2025, taking the total number of people employed to 53,747, according to the latest figures released by ...
Our View: Time for education minister to look at rising numbers of teachers
The number of public sector workers increased by 300 (0.6 per cent) last month, compared to July 2025, taking the total number of people employed to 53,747, according to the latest figures released by ...
AI and bio-weapons
‘Artificial intelligence’ based on Large Language Models is shaping up to be the most efficient destroyer of value since the South Sea Bubble. After the Crash, some specific functions of ...
Our View: The party really isn’t over for nepotism
President Nikos Christodoulides has always traded in soundbites. Rational argument has not often featured in his public discourse, probably because he has realised that it is only soundbites that are ...
GSI’s strategic benefits extend well beyond economics
The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) has entered a new phase. The recent decision by French infrastructure investor Meridiam to become the project’s 66 per cent majority shareholder has renewed confidence ...
Cyprus trapped in a quagmire where the price of peace keeps rising
The geopolitical landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean is undergoing a fundamental transformation, driven by escalating regional conflicts and shifting energy alliances.
Nearly a decade after the collapse of the 2017 Crans-Montana ...
A Greek perspective on Nolan’s The Odyssey: the ‘Oppenheimer of Ithaca’
I watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but for three hours I was transported somewhere much older than Brooklyn. As the opening images appeared, I wasn’t only watching the ...
Concerns regarding sustainability of EU fiscal policy
The years 2025 and 2026 were marked by intense geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East, with adverse worldwide effects on the cost of living and economic growth.
The policy responses of EU ...
From Trump to Cyprus: when loyalty collides with reality
The disruption caused by Donald Trump’s presidency continues to reverberate far beyond the United States. Whether in foreign policy or domestic governance, his instinct to dismiss inconvenient facts rather ...
The Cyprus problem poised to outlive another UN chief
The UN Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres paid a historic visit to Cyprus last week and promised to convene a 5+1 meeting. To achieve results he asked the parties to prepare adequately ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Prezniktwo undecided over a round two? What a joke
CAN WE believe a word Prezniktwo ever says? In an interview, broadcasted by ANT1 on Monday night, he said that he would decide whether to seek re-election in 2027.
And this ...
Our View: Continuing the all-words-no-action strategy
Ever since his election, President Nikos Christodoulides has followed an unchanging strategy on the Cyprus problem. It is a strategy that is all words and no action, a strategy that ...
Why women in Cyprus are still carrying the invisible load
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
There’s unity in what women feel but have been conditioned to dismiss as personal failure, namely the ongoing exhaustion, which is political, structural and by design. ...
Our View: Government can no longer stall GSI
Cyprus authorities were caught completely unaware about the deal that saw two thirds of the shareholding in the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which was held by Greece’s state-owned Admie, ...
Our View: Interior ministry risks credibility by bowing to ID pressure
The debate over whether the names of the father and mother should be included on a person’s ID card was re-kindled last week after the interior ministry announced that ...
Our View: A cabinet reshuffle with an eye on the elections
The long-awaited cabinet reshuffle, which had turned into something of a running joke in the last month, was finally announced on Tuesday evening by President Nikos Christodoulides. All the visits ...
Our View: Justice minister makes it clear union leaders are not untouchable
An illustration of the might of unions is the fact that union leaders are well rewarded by their respective employers. And this was not the case exclusively in the public ...
Cyril Ramaphosa and the law
It’s outrageous. You’re at your hobby farm in the country, just pottering around, so you stuff the $580,000 in your pocket under the sofa cushions temporarily just to get ...
Our View: Municipal strike reflection on slapdash local government reform
Municipalities staged a three-hour strike on Monday morning. This was not a workers’ strike called by their unions for better pay, but a strike called by the Union of Municipalities ...
Local govt reform will ultimately be judged by quality of services
July marked two years since the implementation of Cyprus’ local government reform, one of the most significant institutional reforms undertaken by the Republic of Cyprus since its accession to the ...
Will Cyprus ever see a female police chief?
By Dina Kapardis
Following the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, the police and gendarmerie structures of the early post-independence period were brought together to form the present Cyprus police ...
A useful CBM: exchange of information on properties
By Andreas D Symeou
Confidence building is an essential ingredient for the resumption of talks to resolve the Cyprus problem, as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed in his statement ...
Spain honours its anti-fascist heroes, why does Cyprus forget them?
By Dr Kim Economides
Last year I was granted Spanish citizenship under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, not because I sought another passport or any material advantage, but because I ...
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