Charlie Charalambous, Author at Financial Mirror

A smarter future without climate chaos

Cyprus is banking on the EU to throw it a €1.2 bln lifeline so it can exit the pandemic aftershocks with a rebuilt economy that harnesses the environment and digital technology. We

24th October 2021

Comment/Life & Society

Why the ‘big potato’ is new Eiffel Tower

Cyprus likes to pride itself on its ancient history, Greek mythology, cultural heritage spanning the dawn of time. The island was steeped in the relics of civilisation before the modern world began

17th October 2021

Comment/Life & Society

A trip behind the Brexit curtain

The travel environment in a post-Covid world is a taxing experience of form filling, testing, and checking the category of the country you are flying to. If you are a traveller to

10th October 2021

Comment/Europe

Growing concern over child sex abuse cases

A special police task force set up to handle cases of child sex abuse in the first nine months had to respond to 209 cases, with some of them involving teachers. Police

8th October 2021

Cyprus/Life & Society

Art for art’s sake

By any metric, there is a stench of intolerance wafting through Cyprus that stubbornly believes the new millennium never happened on these shores. The same intractable mindset that has deepened political division

19th September 2021

Comment/Cyprus

Taking a leaf out of the censorship book

Any student of history will know that trying to suppress ideas, thoughts, or critical discussion is a perilous journey many have travelled on with varying degrees of success. Brutal repression can only

12th September 2021

Comment/Cyprus

Nowhere to hide after Valetta nightmare

It might be a blessing that nobody bothers with the Cyprus national team after their embarrassing capitulation to Malta in a World Cup qualifier this week. Malta was a team that Cyprus

4th September 2021

Comment/Life & Society

Afghanistan wasn’t ruined in a day

Over the last week or so, evidence has proven that America is not interested in nation-building – not that it has a great track record – and global stability is no longer

29th August 2021

Comment/Middle East

Cyprus must invest in sporting redemption

A huge sporting spectacular – or as much as COVID will allow – comes to a close with heart-warming Olympic stories of individual triumph and endurance over adversity. There are many human-interest

8th August 2021

Comment/Cyprus

Extreme weather is not a random event

Around the globe, the weather is changing; it’s becoming more extreme and unstable from flash floods in Germany, wildfires in Cyprus and snow in Brasil. We are witnesses to a climate phenomenon;

31st July 2021

Comment/World