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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. ...

Onasagoras

#PoliticsBlog: Averof, Annita, Christodoulides and the lifeguards

At this time of year, as everyone slowly starts coming back from vacation, our thoughts keep drifting to young Nikos. He ...

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 ...

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