Opinion

In the 1980s, there was a joke doing the rounds among IT people like myself. The Cray supercomputer was asked the ultimate question: “Is there a god? Does it exist?” ...

By Miranda Xafa  In a recent article (“The Global Role of the Dollar After the Tramp Tariffs”) I discussed the possibility of a “Mar-a-Lago” accord, proposed by President Trump’s ...

In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva. ...

By Euripides L Evriviades Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus – India’s first in over two decades and the first of an Indian PM since Cyprus joined the ...

I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again. “They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...

By Dr Andreas Procopiou In recent weeks, public discourse in Cyprus around the future of the electricity market has been flooded with voices suggesting we should “freeze” electricity prices, just ...

The bursting of interrelated credit and property bubbles has caused financial crises in the US and certain European countries, including Cyprus, in recent decades. The epicentre of the global financial ...

When a war of words gets out of hand an actual war usually follows. The war of words between Iran and Israel has been going on for many years and ...

PREZNIKTWO’S delusions of world statesmanship were dealt a vicious blow (thankfully it was not fatal, and some delusions survived) last weekend when Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei suggested ...

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK met their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi in Geneva on Friday, in an attempt to open a path back to diplomacy for ...

At the time of writing, US President Donald Trump is deliberating over whether to join Israel’s air campaign to destroy Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. This is already ...

Nobody should have been surprised to be listening to Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou taking credit for the 13 per cent increase in the average salary in the last two years. It ...

In the end, the education ministry surrendered to the teaching unions over the evaluation system, the bill for which it had submitted to the House for approval. As expected, the ...

By Panagiota Steliou More and more young professionals today are rejecting the traditional pursuit of climbing the corporate ladder for job security and financial growth – a path that appealed more ...

The council of ministers on Wednesday approved another bill that would supposedly deal with the controversial issue of multiple pensions. What was approved by the cabinet, could still be changed ...

Defending the president’s diplomatic blunder about Iran’s alleged message, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos criticised the opposition parties for focusing on this while completely ignoring the Russian Federation’s ...

President Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to give the Cyprus Republic and himself a ‘role’ in international affairs backfired at the weekend, when the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry issued a ...

It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1. It took an inordinate length of time to ...

During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...

At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...

By Crispian Balmer, Maayan Lubell, Michael Martina and Matt Spetalnick Israel’s surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran’s nuclear programme and lengthening the ...

In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...

The agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, effective from February 1, 2020, left a strong political and economic imprint on the EU and, an even deeper ...

By Emilios Charalambous and Maria Aristidou In February 2025, the European Commission presented the Omnibus Simplification Packages, a new bundle of legislative proposals aimed at easing the sustainability-related compliance obligations imposed ...