Opinion

I refer to the article “Trash talking: Cyprus drowning in rubbish” (Sunday Mail, May 28) in which Andreas Yiannaki described the excellent work that he is doing to get the rubbish, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Demographic trends, most notably the declining trend of indigenous populations, mainly due to low birth rates, is a key challenge for all developed countries. ...

Saturday, June 3 was World Bicycle Day, unanimously established by the UN General Assembly in 2018. The United Nations had a good reason to do so. The bicycle deserves to be celebrated. ...

I write simply to share my experience with readers which might be a unique occurrence or widespread. Sometime ago, the Cyprus Mail published an informative article about energy saving and ...

So, after some 63 years of the Republic’s independence, the newly elected president of Cyprus with years of political experience under his belt, has suddenly decided that legislation is needed ...

Whenever something goes seriously wrong in democracies, governments appoint judicial inquiries to investigate and report. They are often an expedient smokescreen geared to fend off blame and diffuse criticism. Politicians ...

THE POLITICAL renewal that Prez Nik II promised in the election campaign was put into practice, not for the first time, with the return to action of retired ambassador and ...

After a decade of high-sounding declarations, timelines that fell by the wayside, alliances that came to nothing and ambitious projects on paper – government ambitions for our natural gas reserves have ...

By Charles Ellinas Energy Minister, George Papanastasiou, initiated a debate around natural gas immediately following his appointment. In line with government goals, he has prioritized bringing natural gas to the ...

Diagnostics centres and medical labs affiliated to Gesy have been complaining because the unit price they are paid has been steadily falling. Phileleftheros reported that the unit price for diagnostics ...

The establishment of the National Security Council (NSC), which President Nikos Christodoulides believes would help him deal with security and strategy issues, was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday and ...

By Ethan Pancer, Matthew Philp and Theo Noseworthy In today’s world, our diets are often packed with fats and sugars. Our ancient instinct to crave calorie-rich foods, which once ...

When Elam was given the presidency of the ad hoc parliamentary committee on the demographic problem it may have thought of it as the ideal platform for its anti-migrant rhetoric ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE In mid-June readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses who know his characters Molly and Leopold Bloom, will know what ‘Bloomsday’ is all about. Ulysses is an ...

Universal outrage greeted the post by maverick independent deputy Andreas Themistocleous on Facebook mocking Greens deputy Alexandra Attalidou. There is no denying that his post was offensive, deeply racist and ...

The European Commission has informed the government that it does not accept the formula put together by the parliamentary parties for VAT on the construction or purchase of a primary ...

By Maria Demertzis In its spring 2023 inflation forecasts, issued on May 15, the European Commission predicted that euro-area inflation this year will be 5.8 per cent, a little higher than anticipated in ...

By James Oliphant and Jason Lange If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter ...

By Gwynne Dyer Let us suppose that the current Russian regime collapses, with or without a Ukrainian military victory to give it a final shove. Who would be the least ...

The new targets will impact all energy sectors, including transport, heating and shipping, in addition to electricity By Charles Ellinas EU’s gas policies are embodied in its RePwerEU strategy: ...

The EU has claimed that halloumi/hellim production will form a ‘mini-reunification laboratory’. There is no sign of that yet By Fahri Zihni The much loved hellim/halloumi is perhaps ...

The fuss in the British press over the interior minister was a storm in a teacup By Alper Ali Riza As every observer of corruption in public life knows, it ...

ANGELA MERKEL was declared possible candidate for the role of special envoy of the EU by all the Cyprus and Greece news websites, after Prez Nik II’s visit to ...

Ten years have passed since the bailout, which devastated the economy, and seven have passed since the country exited the assistance programme that was imposed by the international lenders. Although ...