Europe placates Trump with Nato pledges it can ill afford
By Mark John
In their rush to retain Donald Trump’s support for Nato, the alliance’s European members have promised to more than double the amount of wealth they ...
Israel, Iran and the strategic recomposition of the Middle East
The events which have been unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Iran are not just another regional flare-up. They are not episodic. They are systemic. The Israeli-Iranian confrontation, ...
In times of trouble investors turn to reliable gold
Gold has taken centre stage in recent economic developments, as its value has risen steeply. Since the beginning of 2024, gold prices have increased by more than 60 per cent, reflecting the ...
The war that should never have happened
The world has long tried to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and rightly so.
US President Donald Trump never ceases to proclaim that had he been president in 2022, the ...
Challenging the Attorney-general is not unknown
In Cyprus, immunity from challenge is a hangover from colonial times
Thanasis Nicolaou, a newly conscripted soldier in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) national guard was found dead under Alassa ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Public enemy number one status the result of a police set up?
WHEN reports appeared a few weeks ago about a police raid on the home of a senior prison warden which uncovered a large amount of graded state documents, that should ...
Our View: High time our MPs did something to show we can trust them
Whether it’s merely a populist gesture a year out from the 2026 parliamentary elections or a genuine desire for more accountability, Dipa MP Marinos Mousiouttas’ bill to pressure deputies into ...
Our View: Yet another failure in the long-running Akamas saga
The state’s plan for so-called sustainable development of the environmentally sensitive Akamas has been so bad it brings to mind the old joke: “They couldn’t organise a beer ...
Our View: Property sales should be regulated even if that angers developers
Akel raised an issue that nobody has ever dared talk about at last weekend’s party conference – the unregulated and uncontrolled sale of real estate to third country nationals. It ...
Our View: Trump may have forced a ceasefire but for how long?
The de-escalation everyone had been demanding was achieved by the ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump in the early hours of Tuesday. Early violations of the ceasefire that caused Trump ...
Why the Irish are so proud of Bloomsday
The Irish celebrated Bloomsday on June 16 honouring James Joyce’s unique publication Ulysses.
It’s a rare day dedicated to a work of art, now evolving into a week’s ...
Our View: Hahn likely to add more confusion than value to peace process
The EU’s ‘substantive and more active involvement’ in the efforts to resume negotiations on the Cyprus problem could have a high added value for the efforts of the UNSG’...
Our View: Akel is quite simply stuck in the past
Akel held its 24th Pancyprian conference at the weekend, electing a new central committee and re-electing its leader Stefanos Stefanou with 96.4 per cent of the vote. This was a mobilisation ...
The dividing line between fact and fiction
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?” ...
The trade war is morphing into a capital war
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 ...
Diplomacy ends, missiles begin: US pounds Iran nuclear sites
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.
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Cyprus and India: from non-alignment to strategic alignment
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 ...
Rerunning old movies: this could be Trump’s own ‘forever war’
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 ...
Malta’s lauded ‘cheap electricity’ comes at a high price
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 ...
What will cause the next financial crisis?
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 ...
An antidote to the hysteria over Iran
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 ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Kyproulla’s statesman gets lost in translation
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 ...
Our View: Israel strikes, Iran fires back, world waits on Trump
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 ...
Iran-Israel
What UK involvement in Iran could look like
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 ...