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Paris Demetriades

The FOMO industry

In recent years, one familiar trap has threatened to spoil the quality of many people's summer vacations: the infamous FOMO, ...

Opinion

A lifeline for small businesses or another state ''monster''?

European countries generally do not create state-run mechanisms that directly provide loans to small and medium-sized ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

The navel of the world

Does anyone still doubt that Cyprus is the navel of the world? That everything revolves around our President, who proclaimed ...

Opinion

Bullets are not spared...

The tragic and wondrous stories of the people of Lysi are endless. Many believe they were saved by the prayers of holy people ...

Opinion

When you're paying three times more

Cyprus has a small, remote and open economy built around services. Those services rely on electricity every hour of every ...

Opinion

Whatever happens in Ankara...

When there is plenty of spectacle in Ankara, it seems perfectly suited to a president who once set up a wrestling ring in ...

Onasagoras

The black van and the black snake that will devour us

Major twists and turns in the black van affair. Not my black van, of course, which, as everyone knows, is blessed and only ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

Erdoğan's sponsors are giving him every reason to hold the line

Who are the sponsors behind Erdoğan's confidence? Who has made him feel comfortable enough to dictate terms and conditions ...

Paris Demetriades

A light amidst the divide: Honoring the indomitable Sevgül Uludağ

The sudden passing of investigative journalist and peace activist Sevgül Uludağ has brought a rare moment of shared grief ...

Opinion

Reality or narratives?

Our perception of history is often misleading, especially when we fail to break free from the mind's knee-jerk reaction ...

Opinion

Alan Greenspan, the ''Maestro''

Alan Greenspan's tenure as head of the Federal Reserve became known as the "Great Moderation". This era was more than enough ...

Paris Demetriades

From dead end to one-way street

The distraction caused by our phone screens, which might not actually be so smart after all, has become yet another frustrating ...

Costas Iordanidis

The right side of history is never guaranteed

President Trump has a well-known fondness for grand, gold-trimmed settings, and he has openly expressed his admiration for ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Europe gets hotter, politics gets stranger

We got the EU Presidency, and suddenly everything started moving at higher speeds—climate change included.

Opinion

Limited-liability pension reform

The government's focus for the rest of the year will be low pensions. The government's plan is to grant pension increases ...

Opinion

The report is only the beginning

The publication of the Independent Authority Against Corruption's findings has put Cyprus at a critical moment. The report's ...

Onasagoras

#PoliticsBlog: Exceptions, trolls, Avvakoum and leaks

Little Nikos (Nikos Christodoulides) greeted the latest Mafia State developments with visible discomfort, while his beloved ...

Costas Iordanidis

The real story begins the day after

The attack on Iran was planned and executed by two leaders alone: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister ...

Opinion

Where are the Iranians?

Whatever happened to the Iranians who greeted the first American bombs with relief and celebration? They now stand alongside ...

Thanasis Photiou

A reality check for us Cypriots

Yesterday's report by the Independent Authority Against Corruption on the book *Mafia State* is a significant institutional ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Mafia state, Nikaros and the Cyprus problem

The report on the so-called ''Mafia State'' affair and everything related to former President Nicos Anastasiades was released ...

Paris Demetriades

A German expat’s view of Cyprus is going viral—and it’s raising questions

''Hello, I’m Ben. Cyprus was never part of my plans, and this is my story,'' writes a German-born photographer and entrepreneur ...

Michalis Michaelides

Does money bring happiness?

A colleague’s question at the office came completely by chance just a few hours after I watched a video of Mehmet from Kato ...

Paris Demetriades

Popcorn entertainment and seriousness

From its formulaic treatment of the trauma of 1974 to references to landmarks that miss the mark, such as calling Nicosia's ...

Opinion

Cyprus and Europe's unfinished question

Jean-Claude Juncker has with Cyprus what he himself describes as “a long-standing friendship.” A relationship that dates ...

Opinion

Schengen membership, but how?

On January 15, 2026, President Nikos Christodoulides said that ''a huge effort is underway, and by the end of 2025 we will ...

Opinion

Addiction is nicotine’s greatest trick

“Quit before a doctor makes you quit.” Unfortunately, I stopped smoking only after it had already caused the damage doctors ...

Opinion

The population crisis hiding in plain sight

Europe is aging, and so are Greece and Cyprus. In all three cases, the average age of the population is rising while birth ...

Opinion

Veto or not?

Events are unfolding quickly. Germany is stepping up its push for major institutional reforms within the European Union, ...

Michalis Michaelides

Coffee shop conversations

In the coffee shops of the Cypriot countryside, the atmosphere is shaped by the conversation. Every time, in fact, it is ...

Opinion

What antisemitism really is

Racism is when “the well-known anarchist group, dressed uniformly almost like a militia, once again marched in formation ...

Opinion

Composure

The people have spoken, and true democrats are those who accept the will of the electorate without conditions. Democracy ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

15 Years

President Christodoulides announced that he will seek a collective European response to the new legislation Tayyip Erdogan ...

Paris Demetriades

No more noise

With the rise of artificial intelligence, even the most convincing things placed in front of us are now viewed with suspicion, ...

Onasagoras

Bollywood, sheep and church drama: Cyprus never does boring

In India, our young Nikos turned up—and yes, he went dressed… as an Indian. As you can imagine, that sparked all kinds of ...

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