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US LNG exports to see further growth

The US energy security role is being questioned as natural gas exports receive new scrutiny. The Biden administration is reconsidering the way it licences new LNG export terminals, under pressure from climate

21st January 2024

Columnists/Energy/Markets/World

Geopolitics shaping inflation, growth expectations

Geopolitics always played a role in the global economy long before the Great War. However, since the end of the Cold War, its significance was almost undermined and economists and policy makers

21st January 2024

Columnists/Comment/World

Winter sports for seaside municipality?

While almost all the municipalities in the tourist areas are trying to extend their tourist season, perhaps, the only municipality which has a long way to go is Paralimni (and the greater

21st January 2024

Columnists/Cyprus/Property

Deliberative democracy: only way out of the Cyprus problem?

To mark the appointment of a new UN envoy, but one who will not be presiding over the resumption of new negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem, this is a rather long

8th January 2024

Columnists/Comment/Cyprus

The need for a Deputy Ministry of Interior

I submitted some years ago to the then Minister of the Interior, Neoclis Sylikiotis, that it was impossible for a single person with no matter how many qualifications, to be able to

7th January 2024

Columnists/Comment/Property

Switching from a house to an apartment

This is a question comes up quite frequently for home-owners, who have reached or passed the age of 60-65 years old and are on the verge of retirement. Circumstances change and the

30th December 2023

Columnists/Cyprus/Life & Society/Property

Credit where credit’s due

It is rarely that my articles praise civil servants in Cyprus. The failings of the public services are well known and reported regularly in the media, but there are some noticeable exceptions.

24th December 2023

Columnists/Cyprus/Life & Society/Property

A need to increase rental supply

In a previous article I reported on the introduction of a new tax on the sale of real estate (which is the responsibility of the seller) and wondered how the Government that

16th December 2023

Columnists/Comment/Cyprus/Property

New property tax not justified

A new property tax was introduced in February 2021, but because of a mess up at the House of Representatives, the tax was actually introduced in October 2022 and refers to a

12th December 2023

Columnists/Comment/Property

Don Quixote chasing windmills again

The financial oversight of the public sector in every democratic country is as important as the political oversight itself. That’s because public trust in state institutions, the pillars of any democracy is

3rd December 2023

Columnists/Cyprus