Opinion

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. ...

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: “...

Finance minister Makis Keravnos was disparaged and ridiculed for the measures he announced after Wednesday’s council of ministers meeting, one newspaper columnist referring to them as “targeted mockery.” He ...

NOW WE know why our bearded Prez never turns down an invitation to be the guest of honour at an event. It is not because he hates office work, like ...

Nicos Anastasiades left office at the end of February, but six-and-a-half months later he still seems unable to cope as an ordinary citizen, no longer in the limelight. Intent on ...

The arrogance of power and complete disregard for the taxpayer’s money was evident in the government’s request to the legislature for the release of €51,795 that would cover the ...

By Vanessa Barolsky and Yin Paradies Truth-telling is a key demand in the Uluru Statement and is seen as a vital step for a treaty. However, there has been ongoing ...

The government decided to maintain the zero VAT rate on a range of consumer products until the end of April. Bizarrely, it added another two items to the zero VAT ...

At the end of August, it was reported that around 2,000 artefacts, including gold jewellery and gems, had been stolen from the British Museum over a long period of time. Chairman ...

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 ...

A staggering 43.69 per cent of the loan portfolio of the state-owned Housing Finance Corporation is non-performing, but not a single foreclosure has been carried out. Deputies who heard this at ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has not given up his efforts to lure Disy into the government. In an interview, published on Sunday in Phileleftheros, the president said that he would like ...

Large increases in profits not due to better performance in using the funds of depositors to improve the economy Recent media reports on the performances of the largest Cyprus banks ...

Surely very little credence should be attached to the ruminations of an ex-Foreign Secretary of a quasi-failed state as it drifts about in a post-Brexit fog? Jonathan Reddaway, UK

By Nasia Hadjigeorgiou Day in day out, Greek Cypriots hear about the difficulties that exist in resolving the Cyprus problem – Turkey is not willing to compromise, Turkish Cypriots are not ...

I have just read through this pile of ignorant over-simplification (Former British foreign secretary calls for two-state solution to Cyprus problem, Cyprus Mail, September 7) written by a man who is ...

By President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda As Poles, we are proud that on September 10, 2023, our compatriots the Ulma family will be added to the ranks of the ...

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 ...

I am a civil society actor living in Cyprus as an Asylum Seeker. I strongly condemn the recent violent attacks against asylum seekers and refugees by some Cypriots. We have ...

An evaluation of the latest problems to have arisen in the buffer zone The attack by Turkish Cypriots against members of Unficyp in the buffer zone last month highlights their ...

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 ...

WHAT is our world coming to when the party that has based its steady growth on xenophobia and racist rhetoric expels one of its municipal councilors for being racist? It ...

The tension and fear caused by the racist mob beating up foreigners on the streets of Limassol, 10 days ago, appear to have eased. Some isolated incidents of attacks on delivery ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Her first year in office has confounded expectations, as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni blended Atlanticism and pragmatism towards the EU with right-wing populism on immigration, cultural ...