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Northern Epirus is a triangular Greek-speaking region that starts from the Greek-Albanian border and extends north-westerly to Vlorë (Avlonas) and north-easterly to Korçë (Korytsa) and the Small Lake of Prespa. ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...

Sure, we’re biased about home products, Smuggling Hendrix was great, and everyone I’ve asked said Stelana Kliris’ Find Me Falling was captivating. Some foreign critics deemed it simple ...

In December 2023, I wrote an article about the Israel-Palestine conflict which reflected many people’s abhorrence of the murder and abductions of innocent Israeli civilians when the Hamas militia launched ...

Decision-making regarding appraisal, risk assessment and management of public investment projects as well as possible partnership agreements with the private sector are taken with increasingly little consideration of the potential ...

It is summer riot season in England and Northern Ireland and if you believe what Elon Musk posts on X, the UK is in civil war mode. Just because there ...

With shocks following shocks of an unprecedented scale and gravity, and with the European Commission (EC) withdrawing its support for the LNG import project at Vasilikos and asking for its ...

When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed. “By August, if ...

In recent years, the Indian economy has been growing rapidly, while also gaining ground amid rising tensions between China and the US, as well as the EU. The underlying circumstances ...

The standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received from a joint session of the US Congress last week was in stark contrast to the unqualified condemnation of Israel by ...

During the last two months two major reports were released reviewing world energy. First was the Energy Institute’s (EI) ‘Statistical review of world energy 2024’ published in June, followed by ...

President Biden should resign in favour of women candidates Where were you when an all American boy from Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate former US president and candidate for president Donald ...

It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...

Cyprus banks are failing in giving decent interest rates on customer deposits and in providing sufficient credit at reasonable interest rates to businesses and households to support balanced economic growth ...

Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...

 “I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election],” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just ...

Europe and the European Commission (EC) consider electricity grid interconnections between member states as strategically important, contributing to Europe’s energy security. They offer economic efficiency, provide reliability to the ...

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism? There really is a fascist movement in France, although it avoids torch-lit marches and jackboots. It has even ...

Politics is a rough old trade and never rougher than when the electorate evicts the British prime minister from his official residence at 10 Downing Street. The moment the leader of ...

By Charles Ellinas Eni, the Italian multinational energy company, published its ‘Capital Markets Update’ on 14th March focusing on ‘a distinctive strategy to address the challenges and opportunities of the ...

Under the current Cyprus government its policies are increasingly serving the interests of the few rather than the needs of the many. This is particularly the case in the management ...

Napoleon Bonaparte famously called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Britain seemed more like a nation of gamblers after the betting scandal last week. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on ...

Implications of Euro-elections on European energy The headline in the FT following the June elections in Europe was: ‘Europe’s green backlash – Rightwing advances in EU parliament (EP) elections will ...