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Dorita Yiannakou

A crisis within a crisis at the tourism ministry

Although the crisis facing Cyprus's tourism sector may have ultimately ended on a positive note, with last-minute bookings ...

Opinion

When desperation targets the wrong person

Frustration over rising rents, traffic congestion and government inaction is fueling attacks on food delivery workers in ...

Alexis Papachelas

The untapped reserve of Greece's soft power

Greece has an extraordinary reserve of ''soft power.'' Rubio’s speech demonstrated that as clearly as anything could. Whether ...

Paris Demetriades

Why so much violence on the streets of Limassol?

In recent years, violent attacks and beatings targeting vulnerable delivery riders, usually of Asian origin, have become ...

Onasagoras

#PoliticsBlog: DISY’s greatest hits: Same drama, different chorus

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, these days, our politicians conducted their conversations entirely in lyrics from Karvelas ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

The European ‘bogeyman’ that got Cyprus moving

Cyprus is on track to absorb 97.3% of its EU Recovery and Resilience Facility funding, showing how the threat of lost money ...

Alexis Papachelas

France, welcome to Greece’s 2010

“Good morning, France. Welcome to what Greece went through in 2010.” I have always believed that France is the hardest country ...

Onasagoras

#PoliticsBlog: The Prince, Foulis and Lucky Luke

One indisputable fact is that there is never a dull moment in this country. Apart from the Cyprus problem, which has been ...

Michalis Michaelides

From Slovenia, with love

I certainly don’t have the luxury of traveling for food—choosing my trips around restaurants I want to visit or making the ...

Michalis Persianis

When economic reality collides with political reality

The electoral cycle, with societies becoming increasingly polarized and divided, makes the situation even more difficult. ...

Opinion

House prices are rising. Are we building homes people can afford?

The 8.5% rise in house prices in the second quarter of 2026 is a figure that rightly draws attention. For buyers, however, ...

Thanasis Photiou

Makis’ cashbox and the government’s two voices

A party leader who supports the government is publicly clashing, and in unusually strong terms, with a minister from the ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: Averof, the prince and Churchill

Churchill described the modern Cypriot political scene rather vividly when he said, ''Political opponents are merely people ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

Let them eat sponge cake

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, urged the poor of France to eat cake because they had no bread. And every now and then, ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: Averof, the Cyprus problem and the turncoats

Averof essentially announced his candidacy for 2028 yesterday. Of course, he said he would run only if this week’s news ...

Opinion

Cyprus returns to an A rating, but what happens next matters more

After 15 years, the Republic of Cyprus has once again secured an A rating from S&P. This achievement closes a major chapter ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

Prestige, now and forever

The similarities in the way Mrs. Vassiliou has spoken about “prestige” suggest that her political education has, sadly, ...

Paris Demetriades

Substance and nomenclature

I am not saying that presidential elections are unimportant, or that it is unnatural for political discussions and ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Cyprus cannot afford another pension reform fiasco

When the government decides to introduce a new pension system almost half a century after the major reform of 1980, it has ...

Michalis Persianis

It’s alive!

When Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic and former OpenAI employee, resigned noisily on X, he warned that artificial ...

Opinion

Cyprus has reached the moment of truth with Turkey

The tragic events of 1974 unquestionably and fundamentally changed the realities of what has long been described as the ...

Athanasios Ellis

Why Chris Pappas’ Senate bid matters to Greece and Cyprus

In today’s world, one of the most important force multipliers for the Greek world is its presence and political influence ...

Opinion

GSI: Inside President Christodoulides’ mind

The entry of French company Meridiam as the majority stakeholder in the consortium behind the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) ...

Onasagoras

#PoliticsBlog: The limousine, the spin, and AKEL

Things really started to go off the rails with Christodoulides' classic Cypriot line. It was a bit reminiscent of Artemakis ...

Thanasis Photiou

Political fireworks and the reality of the British Bases

Following the drone strike on RAF Akrotiri on March 2, 2026, the President of the Republic chose, through his public statements, ...

Michalis Persianis

The evidence behind ‘sudden deaths’

Just as in Ireland, the courts in Cyprus will eventually have to prove their resilience as well. Few careers in journalism ...

Paris Demetriades

Why is Nepal drowning?

limate justice activists, environmentalists and scientists around the world have been warning us for years, apparently to ...

Thanasis Photiou

Buckle up, we’re gaining momentum!

Last May, the news was cause for celebration. So much so that, for a moment, you could almost believe that somewhere, in ...

Paris Demetriades

A little silence

How mature and sensible is it to take a position and form an opinion, sometimes a strong and forceful one, against the attitude ...

Opinion

Artemion, the Holocaust and the Israelis' title deeds

Any Jew who set foot in Cyprus was subject to immediate execution. No questions asked. The law was clear and absolute, and ...

Opinion

Listening to Europe, building its future

Once I was elected President of the European Council, I decided to visit each member state every year, to meet bilaterally ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: Foulis plots, the lights go out and Cyprus faces another ‘critical week’

While AKEL is revving its engines for 2028, with the party’s horses—thoroughbreds and otherwise—taking their places at the ...

Opinion

Hangovers are officially passé

The other day, dear reader, I found myself studying statistical maps that attempted to chart the drinking habits of the ...

Andreas Andreou

Should bad tenants have a ''Credit Score''?

Over the many years I have worked in the real estate sector, I have seen the Cypriot property market go through all kinds ...

Thanasis Photiou

When the Rule of Law becomes the real issue

The “Santis” case was flawed on structural, substantive and journalistic grounds. The investigative work was inadequate. ...

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