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Systemic corruption poisons values, erodes rule of law, distorts the market, discourages investment and productivity and reduces standard of living Kleptocracy is a form of government in which the leaders, ...

There are simply too many diverging aims and electoral and legislative weaknesses for it to work There are many who consistently argue that a “government of national unity” will help ...

The European Championship 2020 is being played in 2021 for obvious reasons but better late than never. They did not augur well when Christian Eriksen of Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest in ...

With Phoenician blood in their veins, Cypriots should be particularly wary of falling into the digital currency trap By Christos P. Panayiotides I have little doubt that part of the ...

The hope and/or fear that ‘aliens are among us’ had its heyday in the 1950s but is making a comeback By Gwynne Dyer The silly season has come early ...

June is developing into a crucial month for the East Med and its geopolitics involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus By Charles Ellinas At a recent Senate hearing, US Secretary of ...

Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal is a misnomer. A passport is ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Bee Gees, as denigrated as they were loved, wrote a song called ‘Words’ a line of which goes, ‘Talk in everlasting ...

It’s not Bretton Woods, but it’s a start. The decision by the finance ministers of the G7 countries to create a global minimum tax rate on corporate profits ...

Hourly pay for managers is over five times more than for elementary workers – the highest ratio in the EU. The much-heralded Cyprus Tomorrow plan must narrow that gap It is ...

The Communist party is hopelessly out of touch and has proved itself untrustworthy The fall in the share of votes secured by Akel in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections has ...

Our electoral system may be absurd, but last Sunday’s elections secured some very interesting results In a nutshell: in the five-year period since the previous round of parliamentary elections ...

It was Labour’s prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase, a week is a long time in politics. He was UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and then again ...

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit ...

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki condemned the “hijacking” of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday, accusing him of a “reprehensible act of ...

It was a week of reckoning for the oil and gas industry By Charles Ellinas The oil and gas sector was shaken this past week. There were some monumental developments ...

By Christos P. Panayiotides The slogan “Do not forget” emblazoned over a map of Cyprus dripping blood was created by the well-known communication consultant Nicos Demou, in the course of ...

Eurovision is a shadow of its former self and that’s before we get to the UK entry By Alper Ali Riza For the UK to lose a Eurovision contest ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou A man whose father was British told me things were better under British rule than now, which came to mind when I found ...

As controlling global warming becomes a priority the countries of the East Med could get left behind The headline this week was ‘BP dodges new climate target calls as activist ...

Our clunky electoral system makes voting for one of the two biggest parties our only option This coming Sunday we will elect 70 per cent of the members of the House ...

In an election climate in which parties, politicians, candidates, citizens, TV and press are all exchanging fire about a bizonal, bicommunal federation and trading insults about corruption, nobody is interested ...

Cyprus will not be able to take full advantage of ample EU covid aid unless it is willing to undertake major reforms In recent days there has been much advertising ...

Something must be done to right the wrong done to the Palestinians The Gaza Strip in Palestine is probably the worst defended territory in the world. It is under the ...