Cyprus has no coherent long-term energy strategy, according to Andreas Poullikkas, a former chief of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA). He made the case in an analysis published recently, pointing to pressure from costs, climate targets and geopolitics.
Energy, he wrote, is among the most complex issues of the present, and it reaches well beyond production and consumption. It ties together security of supply, household bills, infrastructure investment, climate commitments and geopolitical stability all at once. Policy gets pulled in several directions as a result.
Poullikkas listed who wants what. Some people watch the monthly bill. Others care about new generation units, others about emissions, others about strategic autonomy. None of them is wrong, which is exactly his point.
He did not treat the tangle as a side issue. Complexity, in his words, is not a detail but the core of the problem in designing energy policy.
Tourism figures from parliament
Separately, a different set of numbers reached the House Trade Committee. Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis told the session on Tuesday that official figures for May and June showed signs of stabilisation. The committee was examining how Middle East tensions have hit the sector and what support might go to affected businesses.
Koumis said the measures taken appeared to have worked and that the industry was again showing resilience. Even so, he ruled out a record year. March and April brought significant losses, and 2026 would not make them up.
May did narrow the damage. Arrivals fell 4.9 per cent against May 2025, he said, yet they were still 8.1 per cent above May 2024.
