The European Commission has launched a new platform to help consumers and traders solve online disputes over online purchases. The Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform offers a single point of entry that allows EU consumers and traders to settle their disputes for both domestic and cross-border online purchases. This is done by channeling the disputes to national […]
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Let’s face it, both the right-and-left-wing camps have been completely confused by the turmoil in the world economy in the last decade, it seems that nobody had the answers to the massive social and financial trauma, not even money could help because its value kept falling. The concept of compassionate capitalism is receiving more attention […]
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Larnaca resident Andreas Pavlou, 18, was killed in a motorcycle accident at 8:15 on February 14th, making it the third road fatality in 48 hours and the fourth within a week. The unlucky teenager was driving a powerful motorcycle on Spyros Kyprianou Avenue towards the Nea Salamina roundabout in Larnaca when he was hit by […]
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Cyprus’ fourth-quarter GDP (2015) rose to 2.4 percent compared to minus 1.8 percent for the same quarter in 2014, said the Cyprus Statistical Service (CySTAT) in a flash estimate. The actual positive GDP growth for Q4 2015 on an annual basis is 0.6 percent. The growth rate in the third quarter was 2.3 percent year-on-year, […]
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The Independent newspaper said it will shut down its print version next month and focus the new operation on its digital versions, and in my opinion, this is the first of many majors to make the courageous move. I’m a big fan of The Independent, mainly because of the quality of its content and independent […]
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The attempted suicide by a Palestinian asylum-seeker held at Menoyia refugee camp in Larnaca has triggered renewed calls for all illegally-detained migrants to be released, said the anti-racist non-government organisation KISA. There are EU citizens, asylum-seekers, Cypriots and other undocumented migrants being detained at Menoyia, and the head of the Asylum Service, Mr. Polydorou has […]
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It’s a contradiction that having more will make you happy as it can make you insecure and afraid losing what you have. Health and wealth are no guarantees for a great life when you are still concerned about poverty and disease. The more effort you make and the harder you work will leave you with […]
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