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Sun setting on chances of Cyprus deal
If they can’t seal a deal to reunify Cyprus in talks starting Wednesday, it could be a long time before they get another chance. After more than two years of intense discussions between Turkish Cypriot...
View ArticleCypriots look to UN chief to lead them to reunification
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is heading back to Switzerland on Thursday to give Cypriots a final shove toward the reunification of their long-divided island. When Guterres left the Greek and...
View ArticleUN chief: Talks to reunify Cyprus collapse
Negotiations between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders to reunify Cyprus have failed, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres announced Friday. “I’m very sorry to tell you that despite...
View ArticleToday at Commission, Cyprus talks and agenda
With the G20 meeting in Hamburg about to get going, reporters in Brussels were more interested in the collapse of talks in Switzerland on the reunification of Cyprus. The European Commission said it...
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Commission gets glimpse of post-Brexit EU budget horrors
The European Commission has started to look into the impact that Brexit will have on the next EU budget plan — and wants to show the remaining countries that deep cuts are a bad idea. Cutting the...
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Klitos Papastylianou
It can be lonely being an environmental activist in Cyprus. Politics is a contact sport on the divided Mediterranean island, and campaigners can count on running up against business concerns, criminal...
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Don’t call her ‘Madame Brexit’
RAF AKROTIRI, Cyprus — The doubters thought it would be over by Christmas for Theresa May — but (a few days allowing) the U.K. prime minister survives 2017. Just don’t call her “Madame Brexit.” May’s...
View ArticleData point: Life in Europe
The European Union is supposed to be a single market of goods — but within that single market, there are very different appetites and very different lifestyles. Here’s a look at how taste and lifestyle...
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Two votes, one last chance for Cypriot reunification
The collapse of talks between Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders late last year all but extinguished hopes that the island would ever be united. Now it’s up to voters on both sides of the island to...
View ArticleRegions demand Brexit compensation from EU budget
Regions most exposed to Brexit want the European Union to create a special fund to mitigate the pain. Calls from across the Continent for the EU to help cushion the impact of the U.K.’s departure come...
View ArticleNationalists look set to win Turkish Cypriot election
The conservative National Unity Party looks set to be the largest party in the Turkish Cypriot parliament after Sunday’s election, but it’s not yet clear whether the prior coalition will hold,...
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Where Brexit will hurt most in Europe
The impact of Brexit will vary considerably across the European Union, with some regions bracing for severe costs and others less exposed. That’s the message from data collected by the EU’s Committee...
View ArticleToday at Commission: EU enlargement, Poland and Cuba
On the agenda: Farage-Barnier meeting, elections in northern Cyprus, EU enlargement, Poland. Commission refused to talk about: Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s meeting with the EU’s Brexit negotiator...
View ArticleThe Cappuccino Index
Brussels started 2018 with a bold, simple claim: Membership of the European Union is great value because it costs citizens less than a cup of coffee a day. As Jean-Claude Juncker moves aggressively to...
View ArticleCyprus deal revival hangs on election
What little hope remains for reviving the Cypriot peace deal left unfinished last summer hangs on Sunday’s Greek Cypriot presidential election. The three front-runners all say they want to resume talks...
View ArticleCyprus’ Anastasiades heads to runoff with center-left rival
Incumbent Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will face off against center-left, pro-reunification rival Stavros Malas in a runoff election after the first round of voting on Sunday. Anastasiades,...
View ArticleToday at Commission: Migrant deaths and Brexit puzzles
On the agenda: Brexit, food quality, migration, Italian bracelets. Barnier on the Eurostar: The EU’s Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, will be heading to London on Monday to meet Brexit Secretary...
View ArticleCypriot President Nicos Anastasiades wins second term
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades beat his leftist rival to clinch a second term in a runoff election on Sunday. Anastasiades, from the center-right Democratic Rally, won 56 percent of the vote,...
View ArticleToday at Commission: Western Balkans and Holocaust laws
On the agenda: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and his team of commissioners meet in Strasbourg Tuesday to discuss the Western Balkans, with European enlargement chief Johannes Hahn...
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Med natural gas find brings conflict dividends
ISTANBUL — The dream was that the discovery of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean would bring about peace and cooperation in an unstable region. The reality is that greater resources mean more disputes....
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