Putin’s ‘peace operation’ in the heart of Europe is doing a good job of trying to smash Ukraine into submission while ensuring the Russian economy never recovers. The KGB’s least illustrious officer now has his name in radioactive lights as the mad man who re-drew the map of Europe into Middle Earth. Presumably, what he
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Once again, we put too many eggs in one basket regarding tourism and investments, relying heavily on the Russian and Ukrainian markets because these were deemed ‘lucrative’ to some, not learning from the mistakes of over-depending on British holidaymakers. As a member of the EU, where we too moan about the lack of solidarity, perhaps
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Proponents of the East Med pipeline unrealistically believed the project would forge an economic alliance and create vested interests to leverage the defence and security of Greece, primarily, and Cyprus. This belief emanated from the heartland-rimland theory (Mackinder-Spykman) and a hope/desire to create a regional geopolitical structure or security sub-system that overlooked the complexity and
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As the world moves ahead to mark International Women’s Day, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. All of us are paying the price. The cascading crises of recent years have highlighted how women’s leadership is more crucial than ever. Women have heroically confronted the COVID-19 pandemic as doctors, nurses, and public health and
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Cyprus reported two coronavirus deaths on Saturday, daily cases fell under 2,000 marker on fewer tests to 1,834, hospitalisations dropped 6.5% to 128. The Health Ministry said in its Covid bulletin the latest victims were two women, aged 77 and 78, raising the March death toll to 11 and the national figure to 875, two
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Exploding shells blew apart roadsides Saturday and Russian warplanes bombed stretches of the horizon as thousands of Ukrainians scrambled to escape Kyiv’s war-shattered outskirts by any means possible. The roads on Kyiv’s western edge bear witness to a human tragedy whose scale grows ever greater as Russia’s assault on the Ukrainian capital becomes more determined
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By Heather Scott The US economy saw a hiring surge in February, pushing the jobless rate closer to its pre-pandemic level as hard-hit sectors recover from the impact of Covid-19. American employers added 678,000 workers to their payrolls last month, driving the unemployment rate down to 3.8%, the Labor Department reported Friday. The report is
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Parliament voted through the long overdue package on municipal reforms on Thursday, reducing the number of town halls from 30 to 20, giving local authorities a greater say in town planning and licensing, while achieving economies of scale in public services. The government, which postponed the December municipal elections to allow the three bills to
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Technology has developed so much that it has virtually abolished the traditional way of business decision-making. Entrepreneurs who ‘looked ahead’ and ‘foreseen developments’ have now been replaced by entrepreneurs who utilise the data at their disposal and, through proper processing, make targeted, measurable, and low-risk decisions. Decision Intelligence is a process that combines strategic decision-making
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During the Eurozone crisis, Germany imposed its philosophy of strict austerity on addressing the structural economic problems in the Eurozone. Furthermore, the architecture of the Eurozone was faulty, as was pointed out by Martin Feldstein and others in the 1990s. Despite such warnings, it was erroneously assumed that the market could effectively address all possible
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