. I raise my hat (and my glass) to the ladies I am a great admirer of the fair sex, for many more than the obvious reasons. I am certainly happy to be called a feminist. This week, then, I salute two remarkable and talented women. The wonderful thing about the re-birth of Cyprus Gourmet
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. Full Circle… I’m not sure when Mary and I first clapped eyes on George Kassianos. It was about 1988 or 1990, I think, when we were concluding the visit in which we found the plot on which stood the ruin that would become our home for 21 years. We were staying at the Annabel
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Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksey Meshkov will pay a visit to Cyprus May 28-29, during which he will be received by Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades. He will also have meetings with Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and other Foreign Ministry officials as well as with political party leaders. Counselor and Spokesman of the Russian
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Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said he is cautiously optimistic about Cyprus tourist arrivals in 2014, noting that arrivals could increase at best by 8%. Speaking to the press, Lakkotrypis said that arrivals in April marked an increase of 12% year on year, adding that “signs are encouraging.” Lakkotrypis noted that the
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The government and the Central Bank are coordinating efforts to conclude the right legal framework to address non-performing loans by the end of the year in order to deal with the challenges facing the banking sector, President Nicos Anastasiades told the annual meeting of the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV). The President also said that
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Cyprus will finally get a national health system, but introduced in two parts to allow time for the public and private sector services to cooperate. Health Minister Philippos Patsalis announced a final agreement had been reached with the Troika of international lenders that want to see hospitals become independent trusts or organisations and lessen the
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. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Last week, as demonstrations gathered pace across twelve Brazilian cities, just four weeks ahead of the football World Cup, President Dilma Rousseff was quick to reassure global eyes that “We are capable of putting on the Cup of cups.” Will this rhetoric hold true? Will Rousseff be
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. By Jameel Ahmad, Chief Market Analyst at FXTM The fallout from ECB President, Mario Draghi’s explicit threat that the European Central Bank may add further stimulus in June was very much apparent in the currency markets, with the EURUSD continuing to be sold. Despite Draghi inspiring the EURUSD to depreciate by over 200 pips
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. Ten years ago this week Cyprus was getting ready to elect its first six members of the European Parliament, joining the other nine newcomer states on the EU scene. We had just appointed our first Commissioner, recruited high ranking civil servants to take up new posts within the Brussels bureaucracy and already had six
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The outlook for Austria's banking system remains negative, unchanged since 2009, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report reflecting an expectation that, despite growing evidence of economic stabilisation, banks’ fundamentals will remain weak because of exposures to volatile Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) markets that account for 30% of banking assets. The outlook also
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