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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 ...

Opinion

Meeting Margelina made me fall in love with my homeland

A trio of retirees, probably from Central Europe, sit out on the terrace of Zambartas Wineries, soaking up the spring sunshine ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: The circus is in town...and we're the main act

The new Minister of Justice, Mr. Fytiris, has politely asked the Chief of Police to make Mr. Loizides, our national union ...

Athanasios Ellis

The Washington conference on Greece and Cyprus

The role of Greece and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean and their cooperation with the US in promoting a number of common ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

Our bright future

After all, as we have repeatedly pointed out, the EU’s involvement in the Cyprus issue would merely be supportive of any ...

Opinion

The President’s band-aid solutions

The President, in the so-called State of the Union, was less pompous than in previous years and attempted to highlight the ...

Opinion

''I can hear my food'': A chef’s passion on display

The video of Mrs. Evroulla that accompanied her award at the Wiz 50 Best Restaurants, where she looks straight at the camera ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Phedonas, Annie and Cyprus's State of the Union

The events of the past few weeks, and the clumsy way they’ve been handled, make Cyprus feel like an unguided ship, tossed ...

Opinion

Selling Cyprus for a single crossing point?

“So, if you can’t even open a crossing point, how exactly do you expect to convince anyone that you genuinely want a solution ...

Onasagoras

No Cypriots on the Epstein list...cue the great distraction

Let’s start with the good news. So far, no Cypriot—politician or otherwise—has shown up on Epstein’s list. Fingers crossed. ...

Opinion

Coincidence? I think not!

The recent leak of a maliciously edited video featuring one of former President Nikos Anastasiadis’s most successful ministers, ...

Opinion

Greece, Turkey and the mind of Donald Trump

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s recent statement suggesting that we’re facing a “historic opportunity for the permanent ...

Opinion

2026 will define the Eurozone’s future

The Eurozone faces a range of risks, foremost among them those stemming from the external environment. Specifically, there ...

Opinion

Why doesn’t Troodos have good food?

Although I could offer a few answers to the question, I honestly still wonder why this has been the case, consistently, ...

Opinion

How von der Leyen can save Europe

The Greenland crisis, and what unfolded at the World Economic Forum in Davos, proved something more: that Europe’s time ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Labour policy and the test of leadership

The new Minister of Labour, Marinos Mousiouttas, has assumed responsibility for a critical ministry and is now tasked with ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

Cyprus gets a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art….kind of

Forgive my expression, but as the saying goes, “What’s missing for a villager? A tassel with a pearl.” I woke up today to ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Politics, perks, and a presidential siesta

Our national prince is under serious pressure, with half the crowd wanting him out of government and the other half insisting ...

Andreas Andreou

Cyprus property market 2025: More cash, unexpected winners

Looking at a full year’s results is always a revealing moment, not just for analysts, but for readers too. It’s when you ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

Nicosia celebrates the reopening of Famagusta Gate after seven years

After nearly seven years of construction and setbacks, Nicosia’s historic Famagusta Gate has finally reopened, marking a ...

Onasagoras

From presidential legacy to a Hollywood-style scandal

Former President of Cyprus George Vassiliou has died. Like the current president, he didn’t have a personal political party ...

Opinion

Let Zelensky put down his “scribble” too, and let’s be done with it

I wish to confess the deep emotion that still overwhelms me following the recent patriotic re-emergence of Marios Matsakis. ...

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