We must upgrade our electricity grid
This has now become a top priority for Europe, but for Cyprus too. Kadri Simson, the European energy commissioner, raised the stakes early September in an op-ed in the FT. ...
Finding life on other planets: both a triumph and unsurprising
By Gwynne Dyer
This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: “...
Armenia is making a mistake
The Armenians are a people of great antiquity – the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century BC – but they grew up in a tough neighbourhood, and they have been ...
Extreme weather will have severe effect on economy
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The Cypriot economy depicted a satisfactory performance in the first half of 2023, including the tourism sector, despite the summer outbreak of weather phenomena and ...
Violence on refugees in Europe: a flaw in human nature
European leaders are torn between the human rights of refugees and the fear of local people of being swamped by refugees
The racist attacks on refugees in Limassol and Paphos ...
Cutting off our nose
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Liberty, equality, fraternity, a lovely thought to wrap around any flag. How many democracies live up to that? Liberty? Still mostly in evidence. Equality and fraternity? ...
Aphrodite ‘where art thou’? Chevron likely to stick to its proposal
Chevron is probably prepared to negotiate around its proposed FDP, but it will probably be on the details rather than the substance
It finally happened. Cyprus rejected Chevron’s updated ...
Viva Espagna campeones del Mundo
Sometimes a kiss is not just a kiss
By Alper Ali Riza
When the history of women’s football comes to be written it will be Spain’s 1-0 World ...
Trump could be banned from the office of president
The 14th Amendment could be used without a criminal conviction for insurrection
After last week’s column about world leaders facing criminal charges there have been developments in the Donald ...
Privacy and the unwanted
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Some in Cyprus won’t say they have adopted a baby, perhaps from the need to protect the child’s assumed identity or their private business. ...
Cyprus plan to reduce emissions unclear
Τhe EuroAsia Interconnector and Cyprus’ 2030 Energy Plan
Cyprus issued its draft updated National Energy and Climate Plan, 2021-2030, (NECP) for public consultation on July 21 and to the European Commission (EC) ...
Trump: the mills of the gods grind slowly
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine,” wrote Sextus Empiricus, a Sceptic philosopher who lived mainly in Athens and Alexandria almost 2,000 years ago. Justice may ...
Trump among top world leaders charged with high crimes
The much-indicted septuagenarian former US president Donald Trump is running for president against the incumbent octogenarian Joe Biden in the 2024 race to the White House proving there is still life ...
Cyprus: the price of abuse of political power
It hurts the economy, society and the environment
Under the democratic system of Cyprus the executive and legislative branches of government are elected by the people to serve the people. ...
Challenges in the tourism sector
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
With the end of the pandemic, the accumulated demand, and increased savings, partly as a result of the significant government support packages, led to ...
Who decides who is a Cypriot?
The Cyprus Supreme Court: The applicants were born in Cyprus on either side of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus of July 20, 1974 and are descended from parents who are of mixed ...
Are you a boiling frog?
THE WAY THINGS ARE
For those who can’t afford hours of expensive aircon, the heat is hell. Are you a ticking pollution time bomb adding to climate crime? Mediterranean ...
Aphrodite getting closer
Even though the final results of the successful appraisal drilling of the Aphrodite gasfield earlier this year have not yet been formally announced, development of Aphrodite appears to be getting ...
El Salvador and ‘the world’s coolest dictator’
“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...
Sweden and Denmark should ban burning of Quran
Burning the holy Quran or any other holy book is a violent expression of hatred of believers by setting fire to the symbol of their faith and not a lawful ...
It’s not the end of democracy in Israel, just the liberal version
The protesters in Israel came out every week for seven months to fight what they saw as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assault on democracy, but they lost. On Monday ...
Cyprus must take action to become more resilient
It is lagging far behind when it comes to environment and sustainability
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
The growth of GDP as the main objective of macroeconomic policy is ...
Do Israeli judges need reasonableness in their toolkit?
Courts in Israel have developed it beyond the confines of absurdity
The political turmoil in Israel came to a climax last week when its parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial ...
The way things are going
THE WAYS THINGS ARE
Maari, hyperventilating, called from her retreat on Troodos. She’d been in her garden having a smoke, when a soundless, fluid presence passed through her plants ...