Opinion

Inflation’s surge following excessive stimulus and an energy crisis makes the way ahead hazardous By Andrew Shouler Stagflation is upon us, inflation leading towards economic stagnation. Western economies are ...

By Maria Demertzis The war in Ukraine has brought an end to a 60-year period in which Europe has enjoyed a peace dividend, an amount released by reducing defence expenditure ...

Another candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections was announced on Friday, bringing the total of number of candidates standing, so far, to six. If there are more than six, we apologise ...

We do not know who decided the state hospital working hours, but whoever it was deserves an award for cluelessness. Having the working hours for government offices apply to state ...

Easter Sunday was also the 18th anniversary of the 2004 referendum on the failed Annan plan, which normally passes without much ado except for some blah from the hard-line parties about ...

Tropical Storm Ana in January, Tropical Cyclone Batsirai in February, then Dumako, Emnati and Gombe in quick succession: three cyclones and two ‘tropical storms’ in six weeks hitting the coasts ...

It was no coincidence that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov brought up the threat of nuclear war just before representatives of 40 countries were scheduled to attend US-organised talks in ...

It’s almost incomprehensible that every year the police and fire service spend all of Easter Saturday night literally putting out fires rather than being able to stay home with ...

Last Sunday Vladimir Soloviev, the anchor of Russia’s most popular current affairs show, Sunday Evening, was delivering his usual ‘all is going splendidly’ take on the war in Ukraine ...

Accumulating huge amounts of idle cash By Les Manison In response to the financial crisis of 2012/13 the government in agreement with the troika of international institutional institutions took measures to ...

Costa Carras lived the good life of the ancients and the good Christian life of the late Metropolitan Anthony Costa Carras, tireless campaigner for the restoration of democracy in Greece 1967 ...

PEOPLE with a brain, the minority among the voters, must have breathed a collective sigh of relief on hearing that the efforts for a Diko-Akel alliance in the presidential elections ...

The French will decide on Sunday whether to re-elect pro-business centrist President Emmanuel Macron or blow up decades of mainstream consensus in favour of far-right Marine Le Pen. Here’s ...

The urgent push to end dependency on Russian energy is creating new opportunities for the East Med and reviving projects previously considered unviable By Charles Ellinas A proposal by Energean ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The developments in Ukraine are of concern to all of us. Invasion, war, daily human tragedies on all fronts. The need to halt all hostilities is unfortunately ...

Europe has all the tools needed to succeed and prosper, French ambassador Salina Grenet-Catalano, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the council of the European Union, tells the ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Emmanuel Macron is still expected to win the presidential election in France, this Sunday, April 24, but it will be a tight run according to polls, and French ...

Europe is united on some things, but religion isn’t one of them. The north is secular, the south and east more devout. Easter in the UK is mostly an ...

By Andreas Papadopoulos In today’s fast changing business environment, tremendous forces are radically reshaping the workplace. The bad news is that making decisions for our people and organisations has ...

So, the health ministry has lifted more of its Covid restrictions but with a good number of caveats added, such as recommending everyone, vaccinated or not, have a weekly test ...

The dispute between Hellenic Bank and the bank employees’ union Etyk over the renewal of the collective agreement seems set to drag on. In the latest twist, the union refused ...

By Paul Lambis As the summer season approaches, social media becomes inundated with posts featuring photoshopped models wearing minimal swimwear. Digital channels and interactive technologies certainly have a way of ...

It’s a well-known but terrible shame that to foment social change in Cyprus there has to be a long line of victims before anyone is prompted to bring it ...

Harriet Fletcher, Lancaster University “If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there”. This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of ...