Tales from the coffeeshop: Dialogue for the sake of dialogue
STATE hospital doctors’ union Pasyki was “forced to stage the three-hour work stoppage on Friday as a cry of anguish,” said the perennially angry union...
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‘No new ideas’ from Greek Cypriots, says Burcu
CONTRARY to what it asserts, the Greek Cypriot side has not come up with new ideas on governance in a reunified state, rather it is...
Our View: Too much noise with nothing to say
WHEN there is no news about the Cyprus problem, we have to make it up. It would be unheard of for a Cyprus president to...
An apparently logical conclusion is illogical
By Christos P Panayiotides Please follow my reasoning. The argument of the President of the Republic in favour of a ‘decentralised’ federation is straight forward:...
If France and Germany can reconcile, why can’t we?
By Esra Aygin THE way countries look at their past say a lot about how they envision their future. Coming from a country where to...
Partition would throw us into the abyss
By George Koumoullis THERE has been a lot of talk lately about the two-state solution. Very little though is being said about the consequences of...
UDI: Thorn in the flesh of Turkish Cypriots
If the UN gives up on the talks, does the EU have an obligation to review its relations with the Turkish Cypriots? By Alper Ali...
UN Security Council welcomes Lute’s arrival as consultant on Cyprus
The UN Security Council welcomed on Tuesday the decision to appoint Jane Hol Lute as the UN secretary general’s consultant on the Cyprus problem. Following...
We should no longer ignore the economic benefits of a solution
The main failure of the Cypriot politics is that so many people on both sides of the dividing line in Cyprus either don’t support a...
Reports say plans to repopulate northern village abandoned
Turkish Cypriot authorities have said that residents of a village in the north that had to be abandoned after it was included in a military...
LIVE: Crans-Montana Day 9
Critical day at the conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana. Day nine of negotiations. Follow for live updates....
LIVE – Crans-Montana Day Seven
Live updates from day seven of the Conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana...
Guterres: Friday talks ‘slightly more positive’
THE Crans-Montana negotiations appeared to turn slightly more positive on Friday under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who said though there was some progress on...
Verhofstadt warns of dire consequences if Cyprob talks fail
Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) Group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has called on the EU to step up support...
Tsipras warns of tension with Turkey if Cyprus talks fail
A possible failure of new peace negotiations over Cyprus could stir tensions between Greece and Turkey, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday. United...
Eide delivers much-hyped ‘common text’ to sides (Update 2)
UN special adviser Espen Barth Eide on Wednesday delivered a draft version of the common document he was mandated with producing to guide talks on...
Ensuring past mistakes are not repeated
‘Repeatedly erring on the same issue is typical of unwise men.’ Paraphrasing the well-known ancient Greek dictum is intended to emphasise to the Greek Cypriot...
Poll finds Anastasiades has changed his views due to elections
THE majority of those who saw President Nicos Anastasiades’ address on Monday on the progress of the settlement talks, believe he has changed his stance...
Cyprus peace deal needs to be watertight for vote, says President
By Michele Kambas PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he would not be willing to put any peace deal to a popular vote unless...
Germany’s Gabriel says reunification would be ‘a huge success’
GERMANY fully and wholeheartedly supports the negotiating process on the Cyprus problem, for the reunification of the island, which would be a huge success for everyone...
