Opinion

The two sides have had their day in court – one day each, actually. The seventeen judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have now retired to consider what interim ...

The so-called Cyprus Peace Council staged a demonstration outside Akrotiri base on Sunday to protest against its use by the UK government for flying military supplies to Israel and helping ...

There is no doubt that the migration policy of the Christodoulides government has been a big improvement on that of its predecessor, which spent most of its time publicly complaining ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent years, India has experienced strong economic growth. In 2023, its GDP grew by about 6.5 per cent and a similar performance is expected in 2024. ...

By Efi Xanthou So once again Cyprus is rocked by a political upheaval out of nowhere. President Nikos Christodoulides started a whole discussion about an imminent restructuring of his cabinet, ...

A new announcement by Special Representative Colon Straightup of Ununited Nations Farce Institute of Cyprus (UNFICYP) By Fahri Zihni Cypriots have a proud history of extraordinary théâtre de la ...

Freud’s famous observation has always been evident in the Cyprus problem. The new UN envoy will have her work cut out Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar was officially named last ...

IF PREZ Nik II had meticulously planned to turn his cabinet reshuffle into a colossal cockup, he would not have done it half as well as he did by relying ...

The flagrant illegalities surrounding the operation of a fish farm in Trimiklini and an adjacent leisure centre, to which state authorities turned a blind eye for over 10 years, shocked deputies ...

It took the foreign ministry a week to respond to the draft report of the UN Secretary-General about the renewal of the Unficyp mandate. The time it took to issue ...

It was a surprise to hear education minister Athena Michaelidou would consider the introduction of English language undergraduate courses at the public universities. Although some postgraduate courses are being offered ...

By Clio Doyle When I started my podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift, in the spring of 2021, I felt that I was simultaneously helping to invent, and trying to catch up ...

Interior minister Constantinos Ioannou stepped up his efforts to persuade Brussels to reassess the status of Syria as a war zone during the visit of EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Old Cypriots say the youth have lost their traditional friendliness, heads in phones. Hope lives. While food shopping my card blanked, so I separated necessities and ...

There was no disagreement among party leaders at Monday’s meeting of the National Council, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. The president had listened to the suggestions of the parties, ...

In the end, the cabinet reshuffle, which had dominated the news all last week and caused a lot of negative press for the president, took place earlier than anyone expected. ...

Global energy will continue to be driven by security concerns in 2024, ahead of climate goals, as wars, conflicts and threats to supplies continue. Renewable energy systems (RES) will carry on ...

Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza, because the reservists who were called up for the fighting amount to 10-15 per cent of the country’s workforce and the economy ...

We have no time to renegotiate the Guterres Framework By Christos Panayiotides I must admit that I am deeply concerned by the fact that we appear to be going full ...

By Chris Hann Everywhere in Europe, rituals to mark the winter solstice have long been focused on the Christian narrative of the birth of Jesus. Yet in the ancient Julian ...

A busy couple of weeks for Israel’s legal minds It was an eventful New Year weekend for the legal community in Israel. Her judiciary managed partly to restore her ...

Covid craze makes its comeback COVID craze has made its comeback, in a lite version, for now, but the possibility of it eventually returning to its former glory cannot be ...

There has probably never been a more negative report on the UN Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission than the one released a few days ago. This may have been the ...

By Colin John Irwin There is no peace in the Middle East because there is no effective peace process. This isn’t because the Palestinians and Israelis do not know ...