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Is the Berlin Wall's collapse proof that in a globally interdependent world, walls are unnatural and artificial – and thus doomed? Walls designed to keep people in or out...

Tassas Papadopoulos, a nay-sayer whose ‘No' proved to mean ‘No'. All politics is local, goes the old saying. No doubt it still is, but ‘local' is becoming a big place,...

It was vintage Demetris Christofias, that as Cyprus's newly elected president, he would ask Mehmet Ali Talat, the leader of the island's Turkish community, to conduct their...

The stereotypical Russian diplomat is an older fellow with a brooding mind and a booming voice which he often uses to say “nyet”, and is perhaps not the most socially...

In August, British holidaymakers are out in force in the cafes and beaches of Cyprus, both north and south. If you are from the EU it is easier now than three years ago to...

A rare chink of light in the gloomy Cyprus situation is the agreement, just reached, between Tassos Papadopoulos, the president of the Republic of Cyprus, and his Turkish...

WHAT have George W. Bush and leading Turkish Cypriot politician Mehmet Ali Talat got in common? Both of them have titles which are placed in inverted commas by their...

Time is surely running out for Rauf Denktash, the hardline leader of the Turkish Cypriots. He is a stubborn old man, manifestly out of touch with his own people. That was...

HOPES for a deal to reunify Cyprus before it joins the EU hinge on whether concessions on land issues will be granted to the Turkish Cypriot administration. Glafcos Clerides...

GREEK Prime Minister Costas Simitis will fly to the Turkish resort of Antalya next week amid rising hopes that the tension over Cyprus' planned deployment of Russian-made...

The EU's political leaders appear very uncertain about how to deal with the Cyprus government's demands for fast-track Union entry amid signs that the conflict between the...

GIVEN all the talk about EU enlargement to central and eastern Europe, you might think that Cyprus no longer had an application on the table. Yet the small Mediterranean...

FOR the 18th time, Cyprus will next week ask the European Union to begin actively looking for a solution to the23-year-old division of the island. When he meets EU foreign...

THE European Union has long been aware that it had a challenge on its hands with Cyprus. It must now be feeling the heat more than ever. Summer violence on the divided...

AS the EU's Intergovernmental Conference trundles on, Cyprus is waiting for the day when negotiations on its entry into the EU will begin. Yet the biggest questions about...

CYPRIOTS go to the polls at the end of this month to elect a new parliament, the seventh since the island nation won independence from the UK in 1960. The new assembly will...