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Alexis Papachelas

Europe after the illusion

Even if a “normal” politician wins the next U.S. presidential election, Europe will find it hard to trust the United States ...

Opinion

Europe’s energy shock is Cyprus’ opportunity

The crisis triggered in Europe by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stands as the most severe since the 1970s. It was driven ...

Opinion

Enough is enough

What Mr. Makarios Drousiotis alleges is enough on its own to shake any state to its core, if it is true. But even if it ...

Paris Demetriades

From brookies to missiles and back again

Take something simple and seemingly harmless from everyday life, like the collective obsession with a dessert that, because ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Missiles in the sky, scandals on the ground

We are living through scenes straight out of the Apocalypse. In the Middle East and on our little island. Locally and ...

Opinion

The journalism crisis in Cyprus

Dear journalist friends, the occasion for this piece is the deeply unfortunate interview conducted by the otherwise highly ...

Opinion

Half of Cyprus got breached because nobody owns access

The Digital Security Authority recently reported that one in two people and businesses in Cyprus experienced a cyberattack ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Circumstance waits for no one

Cyprus is no stranger to crises or shocks, whether they come from external or internal forces. Its geopolitical position ...

Apostolos Tomaras

HIO’s double-payment excuses don’t add up

The Health Insurance Organization (HIO) manages the largest public health budget on the island, handling funds from patients, ...

Opinion

Does war create opportunities for the economy?

The ever-increasing duration of military operations in Iran shows no sign of ending anytime soon unless the United States ...

Paris Demetriades

The paranoid side of history

Since March 2 of this year, invoking its familiar pretext of “combating terrorism,” the Israeli army has killed in neighboring ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Out with the bases!

When this whole mess is over, we really should sit down and have an honest conversation with the British about the future ...

Opinion

He's no FDR

The American president was right to say that Britain’s current prime minister, Keir Starmer, is not Winston Churchill. But ...

Opinion

The global economy is facing severe turbulence

The Strait of Hormuz is the only maritime passage into the Persian Gulf. The de facto disruption of normal shipping through ...

Opinion

When fans become the journalists

Among the many pieces that make up the mosaic of supporters is the category of “fan-journalists.” This is the segment within ...

Paris Demetriades

Anti-establishment sideshows in a time of war

Since the morning of Saturday, February 28, when the most ruthless and unscrupulous prime minister in Israel’s history decided, ...

Athanasios Ellis

Drone threat elevates Cyprus’ strategic role in regional security

Cyprus’ effective management – both at the operational and diplomatic levels – of the drone attacks from Hezbollah, has ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: $200 oil, camels, and political drama

Iran warns us to brace for $200-a-barrel oil. ''Let those who pay in dollars worry,'' a friend said, with as much understanding ...

Opinion

Two crises, seven decades apart

Exactly seventy years ago, the Suez Crisis disrupted one of the world’s most vital maritime corridors. In July 1956, during ...

Opinion

The strategy of chaos

The most dangerous development in the war in the Persian Gulf, at least in the medium term, is Iran’s new defensive doctrine, ...

Opinion

Crises give birth to opportunities

Everything happened at breakneck speed and within such a short period of time that it left little room for the brain’s ...

Dorita Yiannakou

If not now, when?

The unprecedented crisis our country is experiencing because of the war in the Middle East has revealed just how operationally ...

Alexis Papachelas

What might China be thinking?

It would be fascinating to know what leaders in Beijing are thinking as the war in the Middle East unfolds. China has shown ...

Opinion

Trump’s proxy war moment

President Trump wants to replace Iran’s current regime with a system friendly to the United States, essentially meaning ...

Athanasios Ellis

When will the war end

The all-powerful United States is acting without being constrained by the even limited and sometimes perfunctory scruples ...

Opinion

The state of the republic

In the United States, they’re still trying to figure out what went wrong. Why did the system of checks and balances fail ...

Onasagoras

Half a million a month…for a boat that doesn’t move

Half a million a month. That’s what the Cypriot taxpayer is shelling out for the floating platform Prometheus, currently ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

The lessons of crisis

One could reasonably say the ink has already dried on the Covid-19 crisis. Yet the lessons from it should by now have become ...

Opinion

U.S.-Europe: Trapped in a ''loveless marriage''

After 13 months of Trump 2.0, after Greenland, the suffocating pressure on Kyiv and the flirtations with Putin, the tariffs ...

Eleni Xenou

Presumption of innocence is not a political shield

The presumption of innocence has become little more than salt water for gargling in the mouths of our politicians, a convenient ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Dangerous matters

It is now final. Everyone in this country is clean, incorruptible, and spotless. That is the impression being conveyed to ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

The island is drowning in concrete

In idyllic corners across Cyprus, occupied and free alike, natural beauty has steadily given way to concrete and graceless ...

Onasagoras

Cyprus soap opera ends: Everyone’s innocent, again

We’ve reached the finale of one of the longest-running soap operas on our little island. The much-ballyhooed, shocking, ...

Paris Demetriades

Mirror, mirror on the wall....

Even though aesthetics is often contrasted with morality, taste is, of course, personal. That’s why the first thing worth ...

Opinion

When your salary lasts for only 18 days

In 1984, with Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister, a newly elected Tory MP, Matthew Parris, conducted a ...

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