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Opinion

Why nothing changes in Cyprus

The other day, I watched Britain’s growth minister, Dan Tomlinson, give an outstanding interview on Sky News.

Opinion

Politics by gangland rules: When fear takes hold of German politics

Fear, intimidation and political allegiances collide in Berlin as questions emerge over the Left’s ties to antisemitic and ...

Opinion

Tourists kept coming to Cyprus so why did hotel profits fall?

Tourism directly accounts for 13% to 15% of Cyprus’ GDP, and more than 25% once we count the economic activity it supports ...

Paris Demetriades

What happens when you can no longer afford your own neighborhood?

Gentrification has come to Cyprus, too. Over the past few years, it has taken hold mainly in the coastal cities, where it ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: DISY unravels as the presidential hill pops champagne

Ms. Holguin saw Christodoulides on Friday and will meet Erhurman on Monday. On the ninth, all three will get together. Three ...

Opinion

Israel: An enclave of the West

Israel's continued military strength and democratic institutions stand in stark contrast to the political and religious ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: Campaign nonsense and a €10,000 charitable excursion

Pamboridis held a press conference and had plenty of interesting things to say—apart from his declaration that, if he becomes ...

Dorita Yiannakou

Who wants to run a business in Cyprus anymore?

Between armed conflicts, geopolitical developments, a prolonged energy crisis and constant shifts in the global economy, ...

Thanasis Photiou

Cyprus needs results, not 19 proposals nobody has seen

Nikos Christodoulides' 19 proposals were presented as a chance to revive the Cyprus peace process, but questions remain ...

Opinion

The suffocation of young people in Cyprus and Europe

Young people in Cyprus and across Europe face rising living costs, limited opportunities and growing disillusionment with ...

Onasagoras

PoliticsBlog: Anastasiades’ blessings and Averof’s heavy lifting

Pamboridis said he had informed Anastasiades about his candidacy and received… his blessing! All right, my dear Giorgos, ...

Panayiotis Rougalas

Could loan brokers put thousands of Cyprus banking jobs at risk?

Cyprus could see a shift toward loan brokers, a model already used in Greece and other countries, potentially reducing banks’ ...

Opinion

Cheaper electricity? Cyprus gets another timetable

Cyprus pays the highest price per kilowatt-hour in Europe not because of some exceptional set of circumstances, but because ...

Paris Demetriades

Cyprus’s architectural disorder tells the story of who we are

The diversity and variety found on our island are undoubtedly remarkable. Within a relatively narrow strip of land, the ...

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 ...

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