Opinion

It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1. It took an inordinate length of time to ...

During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...

At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...

By Crispian Balmer, Maayan Lubell, Michael Martina and Matt Spetalnick Israel’s surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran’s nuclear programme and lengthening the ...

In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...

The agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, effective from February 1, 2020, left a strong political and economic imprint on the EU and, an even deeper ...

By Emilios Charalambous and Maria Aristidou In February 2025, the European Commission presented the Omnibus Simplification Packages, a new bundle of legislative proposals aimed at easing the sustainability-related compliance obligations imposed ...

I HAVE to say that what is going on in our region is rather scary. From some parts of Kyproulla apparently you could see the missiles flying in the direction ...

The Christodoulides government has a tendency of treating everything as theatre. On Friday, after the news of Israel’s air strikes on Iran, the government spokesman posted on ‘X’ that “...

By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi Israel has gutted Iran’s nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes that leave a weakened Tehran with few options to retaliate, including an all-out ...

Although an Israeli attack on Iran was seen as a possibility it still seems to have taken most of the world by surprise when it happened in the early hours ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Recently President Nikos Christodoulides was in London to launch the ‘Minds in Cyprus’ initiative, with the aim of bringing talented Cypriots back to their country.   This ...

Iran once ridiculed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the boy who cried wolf for his constant public warnings about Tehran’s nuclear programme, and his repeated threats to shut ...

Another decision was issued by the European Court of Human Rights, after an application by the owner of an apartment block in Varosha. It ordered Turkey to pay compensation of €18,000 ...

A YouTube ad for Greek speakers devised by Israel’s foreign ministry, praising a controversial aid distribution system in Gaza, has arguably backfired after its creators decided to use artificial ...

Disy deputy Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis was perfectly justified to censure President Nicos Christodoulides for his “highly unlawful” intervention in the setting of the electricity authority’s new tariff. The tariff increase ...

I only heard parts of an interesting programme on the BBC, because phone calls prevented me getting the title or presenter who subjected himself to reacting to various noise tests. ...

Ever since its independence, Cyprus has enjoyed relations with India. There was probably solidarity as both had been British colonies that fought for their freedom, and both suffered the consequences ...

By Euripides L Evriviades It is time to bring the Cyprus question back to the centre of Europe’s conscience The recent appointment of former European Commissioner Johannes Hahn as ...

This is the second anniversary of the arrival of the Emergency but practically nobody is mentioning it. Instead people are choosing to worry about more familiar problems like global trade ...

With water becoming so short in the future with global warming, certainly hotter summers here in Cyprus and less rainfall I am horrified to see people still hosing down pavements ...

Sir, There have been a number of reports from time to time over many years about the high cost of electricity in Cyprus. For example: On January 31, 2025 the energy minister, ...

Many of us here in Cyprus are often annoyed at the inconvenience we face when travelling from Larnaca to somewhere in Europe. Apart from the limited direct flights to European ...

‘We shall fight them on the keyboards and in cyberspace’ When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 and withdrew into its Russian shell, Nato countries benefited economically as the need to ...