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It’s that time of year again, and the usual suspects are gathering for the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP 31) in the Turkish city of Antalya. Almost every country ...

COP31 takes place in Antalya, Turkey, between November 9-20 and is expected to focus on implementation: concrete, market-driven initiatives that can survive the current global energy crisis. The key initiative ...

After the frenzy and speculation that engulfed so many people, including those well beyond America’s borders – if the coverage by Cypriot news agencies was anything to go by – Tuesday’...

Donald Trump was not on the ballot in Tuesday’s US congressional midterm elections. But he urged his supporters to vote as though he were. And they did. Nearly two ...

Much has been written by this author on how the policies of the Cyprus government have contributed to the widening income and very high wealth inequalities of households and on ...

Apart from the Democrat Party, Vice President JD Vance was the winner of the midterms in the US. It set him free to distance himself from an unpopular war against ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar We all saw the destruction in France and other places recently. Let’s focus on France, which has been struggling with a crisis of authority, social resentment, ...

Aluf Benn, the editor of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, has been a steady voice of moderation and common sense for a long time amid the dogmatism and extremism of ...

Statistics are often viewed with scepticism. The familiar saying that “the numbers are thriving, but citizens are not” does not simply reflect a general sense of distrust. It, rather, highlights ...

For three decades, European policymakers operated under a comforting illusion: sovereign debt crises were peripheral disruptions confined to the southern periphery – Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus. The euro crisis of 2010...

It has been quite a week. First we had ‘Lula’ – Luiz Inacio da Silva (as nobody but his mother ever called him) – defying everybody’s expectations. After winding up two ...

The signing on October 26 of the main contracts for the development of the Kronos gasfield, worth up to $1.8 billion, marks the project’s transition into the construction phase. This is ...

In December 1982, ambassador Andrew Jacovides signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) for the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) at Montego Bay, Jamaica. It crowned years ...

An unusual case came before the High Court in England last week of a well-known celebrity, code name PPT, who sought to stop publication by two media outlets of serious ...

In an old Irish song, a wealthy America asks an Irishman, ‘How can I buy Killarney?’ an Irish beauty spot. The answer, ‘How can you buy all the stars in ...

Dear Ambassador John Breslow, A warm welcome to Cyprus for you and your family. Godspeed. At the Cyprus Forum 2026, you underlined that relations between our countries are at an “all-time ...

“The best is yet to come!” Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Trump adviser and then fiancée of Donald Trump Jr, blasted out at the 2020 Republican National Convention. The president looked bemused. ...

There needs to be a fundamental shift towards energy and water infrastructure, higher-productivity industries, fairer taxation and better incomes This opinion piece focuses on the challenges for the government in ...

We are all doomsday preppers now! Britain and Europe are sleepwalking into a war with Russia over Ukraine in a state of rigid groupthink from which not even the withdrawal ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar Late in the evening, even past midnight, Paphos picks up the rubbish and for a few enchanted hours, civilisation smells like it has its act together again. ...

Sovereign debt distress across North America, Europe and Japan marks the terminal phase of a multi-decade debt cycle hitting an arithmetic wall. Compounding deficits – amplified by post-2008 quantitative easing, pandemic ...

According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even ...

The renewed effort to complete the Vasiliko LNG import terminal is entering a critical phase. Eight companies have expressed interest in Etyfa’s (natural gas infrastructure company) tender, estimated at €180 ...

The critical September White House summit between the US and Chinese presidents yielded a complex mix of relative market stabilisation and unresolved geopolitical tensions. Despite intense competition, the two leaders ...