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Opinion

When ''ATA for All'' becomes ATA for no one

And here we are. The government’s big promises and bold declarations over the Cost-of-Living Allowance (ATA) have officially ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

Rich young people under 41

We were glad to hear that the government will keep several housing schemes running in 2026. That’s good news, at least on ...

Opinion

The significance of the P-TEC Summit

The Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) is a U.S. initiative coordinated by the Department of Energy. ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

The animal police… are they on a break?

I know this isn’t ''hard news'' for some, no ministers, no scandals, no new roundabouts being announced. But bear with me. ...

Paris Demetriades

Progressive New York

Much has been written about the triumphant victory of 34-year-old Zoran Mamdani in New York, and rightly so.

Opinion

The politics of dialect

Lately, public debate over the Cypriot dialect, or is it a language, has grown intense. Respected academics and writers ...

Opinion

Acquitted, yet still held hostage

It is difficult to comprehend how, in 2025, European citizens can be declared ''not guilty'' in a courtroom and yet remain ...

Opinion

From “hub” to NATO base: Cyprus levels up

It’s hard to know how seriously to take an initiative. We might become, or at least aspire to become, ''a kind of NATO, ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

34 years for our museum

Here at home, in the country that prides itself on its culture, we’ve been talking about our own new museum for roughly ...

Opinion

When power cannot endure criticism

The word ''fantasy'', recently used by the President of the Republic to dismiss journalistic analyses, was no accident. ...

Onasagoras

Politics blog: Mistakes, passions, and the President’s people

Arrest the wrong suspect for murder? Check. Arrest a prison visitor by mistake? Check again, and this one is going straight ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

One small step for man…one giant waste of time for womankind

I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw the story pop up: Cyprus has unveiled its first female pedestrian crossing lights. ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

€2.4 million is not exactly pocket change

In the budget of the Deputy Ministry of Culture for the international cultural program of Cyprus’s Presidency of the Council ...

Opinion

When €9 sheftalies make you rethink dining in Cyprus

You know that moment when you’re asked to pay €9 for three tiny sheftalies? That’s when you start wondering if the bill ...

Opinion

The government’s two choices

This government has two choices, and it seems determined to take the easy one: the path of handouts, subsidies, and tax ...

Onasagoras

Two states, one federation… and a suitcase of lies

The president seems a little on edge after Erhurman’s election. He insists, as always, that everyone will be judged at the ...

Opinion

The skeleton in the suitcase

I’ll admit it: I can’t quite share the excitement over Tufan Erhürman’s rise to leadership among the Turkish Cypriots. Maybe ...

Onasagoras

AEK Larnaca makes history with London victory

We can’t not congratulate AEK Larnaca, who became the first Cypriot team to beat an English side on their own turf, in the ...

Onasagoras

Prison CEOs and billion-Euro blunders

We’re the only country where prisoners run legitimate business ventures, and we even pay guards to watch over them and give ...

Opinion

The war isn’t televised

If the goal of the October 7, 2023, attack, as I personally believe, was to prevent regional cooperation and achieve an ...

Paris Demetriades

Hollywood cheap, scary, and tasteless

From Panayiotou’s clownish party announcement to Trump’s Hollywood-style peace show in Sharm El-Sheikh, politics reached ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

We were there too...somewhere behind Erdogan

The participation of the Republic of Cyprus at Sharm El-Sheikh for the signing of the Gaza agreement is noteworthy.

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Same circus, new clown

When I was a kid, I read Böll’s The Clown’s Opinions. It stuck with me, but not nearly as much as yesterday’s proclamation ...

Shemaine Bushnell Kyriakides

The Arc de Triomphe is coming to D.C… I mean, the Arc de Trump

Well, I can’t say I’m surprised. The man has put his name on everything from steaks to skyscrapers, so why not an arch? ...

Opinion

History repeats itself as a travesty

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the internet revolution was just beginning, and every country was racing to connect through ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Trump’s Nobel dreams, Erdogan’s “beautiful wife,” and Cyprus in the middle

Our Letymbiotis told us about an invitation from Sisi, the President of Egypt. But apparently that wasn’t glamorous enough, ...

Eleni Xenou

Absolute chaos

A politician without the empathy to grasp the impact of their actions on a citizen’s psychology remains fundamentally inadequate ...

Alexis Papachelas

France does not reform

France is a country that does not reform, at least not without blood and plenty of protest. Its history proves this. In ...

Opinion

We are entering the era of combating corruption

He turned it this way and that, spoke of a “Riviera” and the displacement of residents, let Israel’s zealots dream of annexation. ...

Opinion

The risk is not only geopolitical

The Cyprus-Crete electricity interconnection cable is full of thorny issues that, until resolved, would be better off out ...

Opinion

October 7th - An open wound in every home

October 7th, 2023 was meant to be a sacred holiday, filled with music, laughter, and joy. But as the sun rose that Saturday ...

Paris Demetriades

What independence?

Shivers of excitement and delight were sent through lovers of the military industry by the two Greek fighter jets that crossed ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Full speed ahead

Investigations. Findings. Suspicions abound, and the main players are top officials. The allegations? Acts of corruption. ...

Opinion

The foundations of a just tax reform

There was a time when taxation meant more than the simple collection of revenue. It signified the bond between citizen and ...

Opinion

The things we think we know

Imagine stumbling upon a time machine and ending up in ancient Athens. You walk through the streets, telling people that ...

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