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Cyprus and Europe's unfinished question

Jean-Claude Juncker has with Cyprus what he himself describes as “a long-standing friendship.” A relationship that dates ...

Opinion

Schengen membership, but how?

On January 15, 2026, President Nikos Christodoulides said that ''a huge effort is underway, and by the end of 2025 we will ...

Opinion

Addiction is nicotine’s greatest trick

“Quit before a doctor makes you quit.” Unfortunately, I stopped smoking only after it had already caused the damage doctors ...

Opinion

The population crisis hiding in plain sight

Europe is aging, and so are Greece and Cyprus. In all three cases, the average age of the population is rising while birth ...

Opinion

Veto or not?

Events are unfolding quickly. Germany is stepping up its push for major institutional reforms within the European Union, ...

Michalis Michaelides

Coffee shop conversations

In the coffee shops of the Cypriot countryside, the atmosphere is shaped by the conversation. Every time, in fact, it is ...

Opinion

What antisemitism really is

Racism is when “the well-known anarchist group, dressed uniformly almost like a militia, once again marched in formation ...

Opinion

Composure

The people have spoken, and true democrats are those who accept the will of the electorate without conditions. Democracy ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

15 Years

President Christodoulides announced that he will seek a collective European response to the new legislation Tayyip Erdogan ...

Paris Demetriades

No more noise

With the rise of artificial intelligence, even the most convincing things placed in front of us are now viewed with suspicion, ...

Onasagoras

Bollywood, sheep and church drama: Cyprus never does boring

In India, our young Nikos turned up—and yes, he went dressed… as an Indian. As you can imagine, that sparked all kinds of ...

Paris Demetriades

Talking past the real issue

Mr. Uriel Kurtz said that besides the beauty of the landscape and the island’s proximity to Israel, he was also drawn to ...

Thanasis Photiou

Cyprus talks ''wake up'' again, but is a settlement really closer than anyone thinks?

Let me remind you that President Nikos Christodoulides, from the very first day of his election, threw himself body and ...

Opinion

Israel at Eurovision

Is it right for Israel to still take part in the international song contest taking place tonight in Vienna? Is it right ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Prudently & sparingly

The fact that the Cypriot economy is showing growth does not mean the government should be handing out money freely to everyone. ...

Apostolos Kouroupakis

On Trozena’s pitch-black ridge

Trozena is a Greek Cypriot village, while Gerovasa and Fasli are Turkish Cypriot ones. Small villages, forgotten villages, ...

Costas Iordanidis

Give peace a chance

In 2015, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said of the foreign policy he intended to pursue that “there’s something ...

Paris Demetriades

An election campaign with substance

Last week, nominations were officially submitted for the parliamentary elections taking place exactly two weeks from today. ...

Opinion

A new wave of European instability

Eleven countries are running deficits above 3%, with Romania, Poland, Belgium and France posting the weakest figures. Cyprus, ...

Onasagoras

Politics Blog: Wedding envelopes, roadblocks and political drama

You can accuse Fidias of many shortcomings, lack of education, knowledge, eloquence, and a few other things, but you cannot ...

Thanasis Photiou

The top spot is not what’s at stake

We are in the final stretch before the parliamentary elections on May 24. In just the first four months of 2026, we have ...

Opinion

The illusion of cancer prevention

“Grand, empty words…” cry out the “witnesses” of harsh cancer, along with all their relatives, whenever they hear talk about ...

Dorita Yiannakou

In the trenches

This is what you’d call real beef. It didn’t just erupt out of nowhere. It’s the result of many incidents piling up until ...

Onasagoras

First ladies, influencers and flying priests: Another perfectly normal week in Cyprus

Since yesterday, I’ve been scrolling through social media watching people lose their minds over the promotion and appointment ...

Thanasis Photiou

Indulgence in practice, tough talk in theory

During Nikos Christodoulides’ visit to Israel in April 2025, the Aykut family filled the streets with large billboards ...

Paris Demetriades

The wreckage of a narrative

I am writing less than fifteen days after a building in the city where I was born and raised collapsed suddenly like a house ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

A simple fix for a dangerous housing reality

On Holy Saturday, an aging apartment building collapsed, costing two people their lives. Tragic. The Minister of the Interior ...

Opinion

Why are Cyprus’ biggest projects always delayed?

Cyprus is struggling with long and costly delays in major infrastructure projects, with some of the country’s most high-profile ...

Pavlos Xanthoulis

A collapsed cake

Every time our government opens its mouth and lays out new lofty goals and grand ambitions, the oven gets preheated, the ...

Thanasis Photiou

Israeli intelligence firm linked to Cyprus video controversy

Given that the government itself, in the confusion and panic that followed the release of the now well-known video last ...

Athanasios Ellis

A turning point for Donald Trump?

Donald Trump’s attack on Pope Leo XIV, the language he used about the Pontiff, and even more so his post depicting himself ...

Alexis Papachelas

Gaza as a riviera and… Iran as Texas

The map of the Middle East is being redrawn. The Gulf states are in shock and looking for new alliances, uneasy about relying ...

Opinion

This time, let’s measure corruption

Corruption in a state carries real costs. It slows growth, erodes trust, and ultimately weakens the quality of democracy ...

Costas Iordanidis

Resurrection Day

This year’s Easter feels different from anything even the oldest people in this country can remember. Hell has opened its ...

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 ...

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