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Alexis Papachelas

Valuable ally, you said?

I have been trying for a long time to understand exactly what various Western officials mean when they monotonously repeat ...

Opinion

The dilemmas of war and pandemic

Cyprus is a small country with a large export sector of services, which makes it vulnerable to its external environment. ...

Opinion

How likely is a Greek-Turkish military conflict?

"Conflict over the Aegean Islands: Erdogan Threatens Europe with Next War." This is the title of a comment by the Greek-born ...

Opinion

Our Shared Values Shine in Our Support for Ukraine

Even before Russia fired the first shots, the United States and European Union member states, including Cyprus, were united ...

Opinion

The biggest scam in higher education - the master's degree

It's graduation season. Over the past couple of weeks, some 2 million college students have earned their bachelor's degrees ...

Opinion

Why are we all working so hard?

The idea that technology can liberate us from the drudgery of work is a powerful one. It has also been a powerful disappointment, ...

Opinion

Looking for answers

There are many major issues that need to be addressed, many of them divisive, before a new president is to be elected in ...

Opinion

Talk of doing good rings hollow among global elite in Davos

If the rich don’t give a bit more today, they may have to give a lot more tomorrow. That was my conclusion from last week’s ...

Opinion

Op-ed: Three years after the start of GESY, we look back at the vision and the challenges

In a few days, it will be three years since the implementation of the General Health System (GESY) in Cyprus, the largest ...

Opinion

The Anatolian Greeks who settled in the US

“There was Antonis, a man who emigrated to America from Greece, who thought he was a ‘real Greek’ and that everyone from ...

Opinion

How meritocracy reinforces inequality

We normally have unexamined certainties to guide us through daily life. But few people are so gifted at shaking those certainties ...

Alexis Papachelas

The West’s critical endurance test

It’s always hard to see the big picture during a crisis that’s still unfolding, just as it’s difficult to remember some ...

Opinion

Inequalities between women and men more profound two years into life with Covid

What is very apparent is that women have kept our societies functioning during the pandemic, beyond what they always did, ...

Opinion

From Menogeia to Limnes

Arriving in Cyprus on Monday, and heading to Nicosia, I saw queues of military trucks returning empty to their bases.

Opinion

Maybe we need to stop fighting over the pandemic

I was thinking just the other day that if I were the prime minister of the Netherlands and was being criticized by the opposition ...

Andreas Andreou

The new investment game

Accelerating the transition to a green economy is a no-brainer. It is no coincidence that it accounts for 36.3% of the total ...

Athanasios Ellis

Erdogan should focus on his economy, not Greece

With the Turkish lira continuing its precipitous slide, the risk of capital controls looming dangerously and Recep Tayyip ...

Alexis Papachelas

Osman Kavala and hubris

Osman Kavala has been in prison in Turkey for the past four years. Why? Because he angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Opinion

Joint action to defend and promote Democracy

Across the globe, democracy and human rights are increasingly under siege. Far from being an issue isolated to the “developing” ...

Opinion

An American president with special knowledge

Criticism of Turkish practices by the international community is a recurrent feature in world politics.

Opinion

Vaccine inequality

The new 'Omicron' mutation is the result of a lack of vaccination solidarity between developed and developing countries, ...

Andreas Andreou

Nicosia's beautiful facelift

I will start with a prediction: The center of Nicosia will attract huge investments in real estate within the next five ...

Opinion

The sins of the EU and Nouris' obligation

The numbers are buzzing about the huge problem Cyprus faces with irregular immigration and asylum seekers.

Opinion

The Cyprus issue is at a prolonged impasse

The insistence of Turkey and the leader of the Turkish Cypriots and settlers Ersin Tatar on advance acceptance by the Greek ...

Alexis Papachelas

The Evros example

The West, particularly Europe, is faced with a dilemma. It is challenged by tough players that casually utilize threats ...

Athanasios Ellis

Erdogan’s annoyance and his wrong strategy towards Greece

A country’s strength is the sum, not only of its military capabilities, but also of its collaborations and alliances. Greece, ...

Andreas Andreou

The eternal unfinished buildings in our cities

Driving in some areas of Cyprus, we can see some skeletal buildings that "stand" there abandoned for many years and it makes ...

Opinion

The cost of Erdogan’s behavior

Driven by arrogance and his neo-Ottoman ambitions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan behaves as if Turkey is some sort of unbound superpower ...

Andreas Andreou

New measures to attract new businesses and property purchases

The day before yesterday, YPOIK announced a new support package aimed at attracting foreign companies to operate in Cyprus. ...

Opinion

The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money

In 1969, two years after the Cayman Islands, a British territory, passed its first law to allow secretive offshore trusts, ...

Alexis Papachelas

Erdogan without Trump or Merkel to deal with

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was afraid of one world leader and listened to another.

Opinion

The ego cult of the 19%

There is no reason to believe that those who have until now refused to get a Covid-19 shot will at some point come around ...

Opinion

Cheating never gets one far: The English School Industrial dispute

Employment relations in the 21st Century are governed by multiple layers of institutional regulation that have evolved ...

Opinion

Is America really back?

In a 1990 Atlantic Monthly piece, the most influential realist of a generation – John Mearsheimer – put forth a provocative ...

Opinion

Treating antisocial elements for what they are

Day-to-day life in Greece is excessively determined by people defying laws, rules and reason; it’s disappointing and extremely ...

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