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Will there be room to use LNG created in the region even if it does come online? East Med energy revolves around the biggest country in the region, Egypt. It ...

It’s been just over a month since “liberation day” was announced by President Trump and things have zigzagged in different directions since then. The last development in this saga, ...

The Trump administration’s trade policies continue to monopolise attention. The implications are multidimensional. Among other things, they affect the course of the dollar, as well as the exchange rates ...

Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum terms By Euripides L Evriviades Thucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in ...

Immigration dominates politics in Europe and America in ways it had never done previously. It is the main platform of all right-wing movements that are mushrooming everywhere on both sides ...

The recently-widowed and aged Cypriot neighbour of a friend took to going to church in the evenings unaware she was being watched. One night, she returned to find her home ...

Poor Maria Angela Holguin has once again been dragged into the political minefield that is Cyprus, reappointed as the UN secretary-general’s (UNSG) personal envoy. There was hesitation in announcing ...

There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan. Both confrontations were set off by horrendously cruel mass ...

In Cyprus the financial crisis of 2012-13 resulted in a loss of wealth for many households owing to the “deposit haircut” and the collapse of prices of bank shares and ...

There were seagulls loitering by the tin chimney at the Vatican as it billowed white smoke heralding the election of Pope Leo XIV the first all-American pope, evocative of land ...

What happened in Spain and Portugal on April 28 brought home how insecure our energy systems have become. For about 20 hours Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France experienced a widespread ...

Culture is a crucial, but underestimated, factor in socio-economic progress. It influences the perceptions of national authorities and citizens and defines their approach to addressing challenges and interactions with the ...

The dilemma that Europe (and this includes the UK) would have to choose between the world’s two largest economic giants would have seemed preposterous a few months ago. Until ...

Malta and the EU’s definitive ruling on golden passports In a trenchant judgement on April 29, 2025 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the ...

Trade is structural and its implications for policy and markets alike are pervasive, especially when deficits have been persistent and accumulating for a long time. Currencies and trade imbalances are ...

Greek American David Sedaris is an inimitable raconteur, an irreverent and brilliant wit whose jokes can be blunt, but never tainted with coarseness or discrimination. He’s gay, happy in ...

I read with interest, and eventual dismay, the Easter article of President Nikos Christodoulides in Kathimerini newspaper where he enthused about his recent visit to the US and the miracle ...

Films highlight the doctrinaire versus the avant-garde and the machinations behind becoming pope What was unique about Pope Francis who died last Monday was not that he was the first ...

ALTHOUGH the adoption of an aggressive policy of imposing high tariffs by the United States featured prominently in President Trump’s campaign agenda, the scope of the actual measures has ...

In the UK, where there is no ban on the hijab for girls and women in public institutions including schools, we see an increasing number of successful, popular and respected ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

In 2024 Cyprus banks continued to amass very large profits. However, their self-serving behaviour, particularly in conduct of interest rate and lending policies, has meant that banks fell far short in ...

On Wednesday five justices of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) decided that a woman is a person born biologically female. The judgement is long and technical and the UKSC was ...

The headscarf controversy in Turkish Cypriot schools after a regulation governing school dress was changed to authorise schoolgirls to cover their heads raises human rights issues the European Court of ...