Opinion

Speaking about his intention to join the contest for the Disy presidential candidacy on Omega TV, former health minister Giorgos Pamborides said his plan was to appeal to voters beyond ...

“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president ...

World Teachers Day was marked on Monday just days ahead of planned industrial action by teachers in Cyprus and one day before the unions are to meet Education Minister Athena ...

Economic success creates a new question for Cyprus. Having repaired the state’s balance sheet, is the island using its financial strength sufficiently to repair structural weaknesses in its economy? ...

States in the international system operate in an environment of unyielding anarchy. No supreme arbiter protects a sovereign state when an existential crisis arrives. When a small state sits directly ...

Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed an array of politicians seemingly fixated on their own importance and on the unshakable belief that only they can make a difference ...

“Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was…very hard to do,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly last month, “but for me it was one ...

Modern societies are characterised by a concentration of wealth among a small proportion of citizens and by growing social inequalities. In Cyprus, political parties, organised groups and many citizens argue ...

The top priority of Finance Minister Makis Keravnos seems to be to use government budgets to produce and record large fiscal surpluses, rather than utilising budgets as a key instrument ...

The controversy about the description of Mehmet Harmanci as Turkish Cypriot mayor of Nicosia by the Cyprus Forum, who was driven to withdraw from its conference last week, was reminiscent ...

Matters of defence and military equipment “should not become the subject of pre-election exploitation”, defence minister Vasilis Palmas warned last week. Criticism is welcome, he added in comments to the ...

By Sonya J Thissen, Harriet E Berg and Vladyslav Lomako Every morning at 9:00am, Ukraine stops. Across cities in Ukraine, loudspeakers normally used to warn of incoming Russian air strikes ...

This week, AI entered the tourism conversation in a more prominent way than the more generic “use of technology” – never mind that some in the tech industry are warning that ...

How would the British public feel if someone stole old Nelson from his plinth, or a lion from Trafalgar Square, placed them in their museum and refused to give them ...

Now and again there are news stories that cross a person’s desk that have no connection to each other but reveal an underlying mentality that speaks volumes. On Sunday, ...

“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” claims the latest ...

The news that a 16-year-old scooter rider died from his injuries at the weekend after being hit by a drunk driver in early August, and police announcing they’d booked 34 ...

Developments on the Cyprus problem over the past week have been less of a “flurry of diplomatic activity” than a “flurry of negativity”. At home we’ve had the fiasco ...

By Hakan Karahasan Just as elsewhere in the world, not a day goes by in Cyprus without far-right populism making its presence felt. The most recent ‘development’ took place during ...

The most dangerous lesson of the war with Iran may not be about Iran. It may be about the bomb. Would the US and Israel have attacked Iran if Tehran ...

The lack of visible benefits from Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market has reopened debate over the single buyer model. Under a conventional single-buyer arrangement, one body purchases electricity through tenders or ...

Recently I have been writing about financial matters and the risks associated with rising interest rates in the US. For sure, the phenomenon is not limited to the United States. ...

Decades of emergency governance, patronage and institutional barriers have weakened civic participation and left Cyprus facing a deepening crisis of political legitimacy. The collapse of civic participation and institutional authority ...

Dr Thomas James Phillips Writing in the 19th century literary feuilleton Vremya (Time), the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky chastised the intelligentsia of his day for its revolutionary impatience. Having been ...