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Cypriot president: Erdoğan’s flag comments ‘unacceptable’
Nicos Anastasiades, the president of Cyprus, said Wednesday that Turkey’s president questioning the legitimacy of the Cypriot flag was âunacceptable,” Greek media reported. Turkish President Recep...
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Cyprus reunification talks to resume ‘immediately’
Negotiations to reunify Cyprus are back on track after leaders from the two sides agreed on a timeline to tackle in January the most contentious issues on the table. Intense talks between Greek...
View ArticlePOLITICO 28: the ranking
POLITICO 28 is a guide to the people most likely to shape our world in 2017. For a full explanation of the methodology, see this Letter from the Editors. Illustrations by Denise NestorOnline...
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MUSTAFA AKINCI
.wp-caption-text, .wp-caption, .wp-caption img{max-width:658px !important;}As mayor of northern Nicosia in the late 1970s, Mustafa Akıncı helped to link Cyprusâ divided capital city with a single...
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Oxfam: Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands among worst tax havens
Luxembourg, Ireland, Cyprus, and the Netherlands are among the worldâs 10 worst tax havens, despite an ongoing EU crackdown on tax avoidance and profit shifting across the bloc. The findings come in...
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Cyprus, the endgame
It’s make-or-break week for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, as their leaders enter the toughest stretch yet of negotiations to reunify the long-divided island. It’s a make-or-break week for the EUÂ as...
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Juncker: This is the ‘very last chance’ for Cyprus
VALLETTA â This is the last opportunity for the reunification of Cyprus, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday, explaining why he will be going to Geneva where delicate...
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Cyprus reunification within reach
GENEVA â Cyprus is closer to ending the 43-year division between its Greek and Turkish populations than it has been in years. As talks at United Nations headquarters in Geneva enter their final...
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Cyprus fears Russia could wreck reunification
GENEVA â As Cypriot leaders tussle with Greece, Turkey and the U.K. over the most delicate parts of an agreement to reunify the island, there’s a growing fear that Russia could spoil a deal....
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Cyprus talks to continue at home
GENEVA â The first ever international meeting to reunify Cyprus ended after only a day of talks, with an agreement to set up a working group and continue discussing the toughest issues later this...
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Cyprus talks stumble over questions of security
GENEVA â Negotiators are still hopeful that a deal to reunify Cyprus can be done within weeks despite a bellicose response from the Turkish president Friday to the talks’ unexpected breakup. Recep...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in POLITICO Europe, Belgium, January 12, 2017 | By Rytis Daukantas First published in The New York Times, U.S., January 12, 2017 | By Chappatte “Portugal mourns Mário Soares.”...
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Greek minister blamed for derailing Cyprus talks
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be kept out of future negotiations to reunify Cyprus after he âwent rogueâ and disrupted fragile talks in Geneva last week, according to two officials who...
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Europe’s environmental bad guys
The European Commission was careful to only name countries in order to praise them in its overview to the first Environmental Implementation Review, but a closer look by POLITICO at the appended...
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Turkish Cypriot leader calls on UN to break reunification deadlock
Mustafa Akıncı, the Turkish Cypriot leader, has asked the U.N. secretary general to step in to help settle the latest roadblock in reunification talks, AP reported Thursday. Akıncı opposes aÂ...
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Greek Cypriot leader ‘slammed the door’ during negotiations
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı said his Greek Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades walked out of reunification talks “and slammed the door hard,” the Turkish Cypriot government said in a...
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Cyprus talks on the rocks over school history rule
Turkeyâs foreign minister on Tuesday called on the Greek Cypriot leader to scrap a rule forcing schools to commemorate efforts to unify Cyprus with Greece â or risk derailing the islandâs...
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How Erdoğan will derail Cyprus’ reunification
The divided island of Cyprus is probably the closest it has ever been to being reunified. For the first time, both the North and the South have elected leaders who are genuinely willing to work toward...
View ArticleMany EU workers worse off now than 8 years ago: report
Real wages in seven EU countries have fallen since 2009, according to a new report by the European Trade Union Institute and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) published Monday. Adjusted...
View ArticleUN to host Cyprus leaders in push to restart reunification talks
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders will dine together in Nicosia’s U.N. buffer zone on April 2, the United Nations announced Monday, in their first meeting since reunification talks broke down...
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