Giorgos Kallinikou

Giorgos Kallinikou began his career in journalism in 1984, having previously worked at another newspaper before joining the Phileleftheros editorial team in 2008. He served as editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2023, and has been editorial director of the group's websites since September 2023. He also writes a regular column for Phileleftheros.
Opinion

Blackmail, Averof’s belly laugh, Annita’s broken record and looming defeat

For a month now we have watched the backstabbing in the DISY camp on Pindarou Street. All the while,...
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A homeland shrinks when its people do: 66 years of half-independence

There was a time when this place knew how to dream, and could. In 1950, a whole people went...
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Pindarou’s troupe puts on a comedy at the fish tavern

The former leader (Averof Neofytou) charged out, frothing at the mouth, to raise the banner of revolt. Heaven forbid...
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A second ordeal for families: pay to save your loved one, then fight the state for it

Somewhere in Cyprus right now, a family is packing a suitcase. Not for a holiday. Because the treatment their...
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Yes to the GSI, but Je suis Makis Keravnos! A €2bn mistake would be catastrophic

Some projects get judged on whether they're technically feasible. Some get judged on whether they're politically desirable. And some,...
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Cyprus’s madness: tragedy first, action second

It took a tragedy at Cape Greco for us to discover that the Republic of Cyprus has no clear...
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The Kyrenia tragedy and the tragedy of the inhuman: You are not defending Cyprus. You are shrinking it.

SCENE ONE: Outside Kyrenia harbour, Ayten Bicer has been waiting for hours for word of her two children, who...
Opinion

The state is sinking off Limassol – 12 years of pollution and still no answers

There are moments when a state’s incompetence becomes the ultimate provocation. Each new case that comes to light turns...
Opinion

Save the lectures on institutions for someone else, Mr Anastasiades: history doesn’t take corrections by letter

There are moments in a country's political life when reality outdoes even the wildest satire. This is one of...
Opinion

Pamboridis’s megaton bomb on organised crime and politics, or just a flashbang?

Giorgos Pamborides isn't keen on DISY's new rule change, the one that hands the choice of presidential candidate to...
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Admire the state: how it recycles its own inertia

The backwater mentality running the Cypriot state remains, sadly, monumental. Irresponsibility, indifference, negligence, and a pace of implementation slower...
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Averof, my old teacher… How the attack on DISY and AKEL blew up in his own face

"Because blinkers have no place in politics as far as I'm concerned, let me put it to you plainly..."...
Opinion

Stop making excuses. Start staffing the beaches.

Two 20-year-old girls went for a swim on a beach in Oroklini. They drowned. That beach has a lifeguard...
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