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Paris Demetriades

Can the sea be bought?

On summer mornings this year at Limassol’s urban beaches, among women doing water aerobics, teenagers playing football on ...

Onasagoras

Keep pushing and you’ll turn Drousiotis into a folk hero

''Cypriot justice cannot show inexcusable negligence and sluggishness in some cases, while displaying excessive haste and ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

New faces, old problems at welfare and culture

In the recent Cabinet reshuffle, which tested both the patience of sensible citizens and the endurance of journalists, President ...

Opinion

Orson Welles, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Nolan’s Helen

Nolan’s film would have been received very differently during the decades of cultural revolution than it is today, at a ...

Opinion

A presidency falling short of the moment

So what’s the problem with the President? He does everything humanly possible to undermine exactly what he himself proclaims. ...

Opinion

Electricity: The lost opportunity

A healthy electricity market requires a sustainable electricity grid as basic infrastructure for the safe, reliable, and ...

Alexis Papachelas

Europe faces one shock after another

Europe is confronting enormous, almost existential, threats. Where do you even begin? Illegal migration has reached alarming ...

Thanasis Photiou

No fault, no accountability

As expected, there were those who wasted no time turning the incident into an opportunity for political point scoring. Apparently ...

Paris Demetriades

Surrounded by sea, yet still looking inward

It is clearly no coincidence that Cyprus' administrative capital has been located inland for so many centuries, nor is it ...

Athanasios Ellis

Guterres has opened the door, but who really holds the key?

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, visited Cyprus this week, with the aim of securing a minimum ...

Opinion

A most useful CBM: Exchange of information on properties

Confidence building is an essential ingredient for the resumption of the talks, as Antonio Guterres stressed in his statement ...

Opinion

The Christine Lagarde enigma

June's decision was never followed through. At the meeting one month later, the European Central Bank chose not to extend ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Hallelujah, Guterres is here. Now all we need is a miracle

Guterres is in Cyprus. Hallelujah. Should we celebrate or mourn? Or perhaps do both, just to cover all the bases?

Opinion

The housing crisis is not just about homes, it's about Cyprus’ future

The housing crisis is no longer a temporary economic difficulty. It is evolving into one of the European Union’s (EU) most ...

Opinion

Infantino’s promise

The curtain has fallen on a glittering tournament that crowned Spain as the new summit of world football. Spain may have ...

Onasagoras

Forget the football, the real match in Cyprus is about to start

"The game is starting, leave me alone now, the time has come, the game is starting. Nobody move, be quiet, the game is starting." ...

Onasagoras

'Faflatogate': The art of talking around the truth

Many eyebrows were raised recently when it became known that Mr. Paschalidis had been appointed by the president for a third ...

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 ...

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