Phileleftheros Editorial

Forethought, not afterthought

Better late than never? Of course. But it shouldn't be the rule. Steps to head off trouble need to...

A week full of opportunity

The high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly has always lent itself to diplomatic groundwork, and now and...

Positive signals, and the citizens

A strong vote of confidence in the strength and outlook of the Cypriot economy: that is what Standard &...

The antennas, and the bigger question of the British Bases

Residents of the Kourion district have once again voiced fierce opposition to plans for new antennas near the British...

Events demand a “European Article 4”

The President of the European Commission has put a "European Article 4" on the table, dusting off the old...

The goal: laying the groundwork for the next step

This is the last meeting before New York. President Nikos Christodoulides and occupation leader Tufan Erhürman sit down today...

More checks. A law that needs rewriting.

Electric scooters are cheap, modern, nimble, green: everything you'd want in a way to get about. They let people...

The housing problem and the solutions on offer

A few days ago, the government unveiled two new housing schemes. Both are aimed at young people and families,...

52 years on, and Cyprus still doesn’t know where its dead are

Fifty-two years after Turkey's invasion, and the occupation of Republic of Cyprus territory that followed, the wounds are still...

An alliance that holds firm and grows stronger

Cyprus's relationship with Egypt is strategic in nature, and in practice, it barely seems to register the turbulence elsewhere...

The problem is policy, not a lack of trust

The first meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Tufan Erhurman, leader of the occupation regime, sent the right signals:...

Geopolitical weight behind the Egypt summit

Today's emergency trilateral summit between Greece, Egypt and Cyprus lands at a moment when the ground beneath our region...

Fifty-two years on, Cyprus still owes its 1974 victims

In July 2026, the Council of Ministers finally scrapped the income test that had been standing between the parents...

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