Opinion

By Yiren Ren Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it’s the tune that was playing during your first dance, ...

If the political parties approve the government bill to raise the betting tax from 3 per cent to 4.5 per cent to assist football clubs that owe millions of euros in taxes ...

By Annie Pezalla As a psychologist who studies family relationships, I can tell you that a parent’s No. 1 job is to keep their kids safe. When a kid becomes ...

Keir Starmer became only the second British prime minister to visit Cyprus since independence, when he arrived at the presidential palace on Tuesday for a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. ...

France and Germany’s political crises are a setback for efforts to modernise Europe’s struggling economy and are already making it harder for companies to take the investment decisions ...

Syria’s dynastic dictatorship, which was established in 1971, collapsed at the weekend, Bashar al-Assad’s regime toppled by militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which encountered little resistance from Assad’...

By Alicia García-Herrero and Juan Mejino Lopez The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes.  Devastating flooding in ...

One of the key subjects discussed at the Sustainable Future conference organised by Politico in Brussels this week was how the Green Deal will pan out under the new European ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Last week I wrote that Plato considered truthfulness a key characteristic of a good leader. Indeed, it is more generally a characteristic of good moral character. Telling ...

By Emily Guerry A lot of my research involves examining relics from Jesus’s final days. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with some of ...

I live in Melbourne, Australia, and while watching Channel 9 news about a week ago, the finance segment showed the 10 best countries for Australian tourists to visit because of the strong $...

By Palestinian ambassador Abdallah Attari The International Criminal Court (ICC), also known as The Hague Tribunal, is considered the “ultimate guardian” of international justice. It was established in 2002 through the ...

EAC currently requires people pay a monthly subscription to use their public car charging network (€6 per month). It’s the only charging network I’ve found in Europe that has ...

Last week President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for offences of failing to disclose he was a drug addict to obtain a gun, tax evasion and any federal offences ...

ODYSSEAS’ employment at the Michaelides family business, also known as the public service, may have been unjustly terminated but I am thrilled to see that his equally unhinged sister, Thoktor ...

How things change. Until a few years ago the mere mention of Nato in public debate was guaranteed to fuel indignant statements by most of the political parties and fiery ...

The government has come under a lot of criticism from Larnaca municipality and a section of the media for the decisions it has taken about the development of the town’...

For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...

By Michael Wheeler, David Dunstan, Lauren Arundell, Mats Hallgren and Paddy Dempsey But for parents, setting boundaries around screens isn’t just about kids; it’s also about modelling a ...

Sports are much more than a way to sweat or count our steps. They are a language our body speaks when it wants to remind us how alive we are. ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that the secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek declined the education minister’s invitation to attend talks on the formulation of a new evaluation ...

I watched The Day After Tomorrow when it first came out and was impressed with the terrifying special effects. The second time round, I was impressed and worried by how ...

President of the Fiscal Council Michalis Persianis made a revelation at the House finance committee on Monday during the discussion of the 2025 state budget, that was largely ignored. He said ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou made a fool of himself at the weekend when he issued an official statement denying he had made comments attributed to him in a report by ...