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Leader of Turkish Cypriots says talks are ‘stuck'; mechanisms for decision-making are a sticking-point. The European Union should put pressure on the Greek Cypriot...

Cyprus fears talks could unsettle peace talks between the island's divided communities. The French government wants to open negotiations with Turkey on energy during its...

The improved prospects for dialogue across the divide in Cyprus are as welcome as the pale sunshine and longer days of spring. Movement from the Greek Cypriot side is long...

Brussels, 5 March 1998CYPRUS could be excluded from the launch of accession negotiations at the end of this month if the Greek Cypriot government does not show sufficient...

With France's blocking of a key negotiating chapter with Turkey in June and its plan to convene experts this autumn to define a European frontier that it believes should...

Mehmet Ali Talat, the president of Turkish northern Cyprus, has warned that Greek Cypriot membership of the eurozone could hinder reunification of the island. But in an...

Turkey is likely to open four more chapters of its negotiations for EU membership in the first half of this year, according to Ali Babacan, the country's chief negotiator....

Anyone visiting Turkey after an interval of several years, as I did last week, cannot fail to be impressed by the visible evidence of the transformation of the Turkish...

Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was treated with due courtesy at the EU summit in Brussels this week. Yet many of his fellow heads of government still harbour a sense of...

There are pressures on Turkey that it must recognise “Cyprus”, an EU member, before it can start accession talks. The Cyprus question needs to be resolved as early as...

RECENT decisions taken by the European Commission have raised the hopes of the Turkish Cypriot people, who have been suffering isolation for many years. However,...

It is indeed a source of deep regret that the peaceful reunification of the island of Cyprus did not proceed in accordance with the United Nations (UN) proposals for a final...

While the saga of ‘the Cyprus problem' has been going on for a while, never before has it occupied so much space in Western media. The efforts by UN Secretary-General Kofi...

THE man who negotiated Cyprus' entry into the EU has launched a blistering attack against the Greek Cypriot government, alleging it is trying to stifle democratic debate on...

TURKEY'S outgoing EU ambassador believes there is a "real danger" his country's political crisis could result in gains for parties hostile to European integration. Speaking...

A new 'partnership state' in Cyprus would be good for the island and for the EU, writes Ergün Olgun, FACE to face negotiations are actively under way in Cyprus in the...

From Chawki Armali With regard to your article of 26 April-2 May which alleges that the EU has funded anti-Semitic textbooks within Palestine, I very much regret that you...

Each of the front-running applicants for EU membership has now set out its views on at least seven chapters of Union law. All have asked for their particular circumstances to...

EU FOREIGN ministers defused a row over whether Cyprus should attend accession negotiations without Turkish representatives, after France dropped objections to holding talks...

CYPRUS could be excluded from the launch of accession negotiations at theend of this month if the Greek Cypriot government does not show sufficientflexibility in allowing...