Cyprus
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2 February 20126The Guardian London
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Arms industry
Greece still splashes out billions on defence
11 January 201234Die Zeit Hamburg -
Mediterranean
Gas pressure rises a few bars
20 September 2011PresseuropPolitis -
Turkey-Cyprus
Ankara starts spat with EU
19 September 20111PresseuropLa Stampa -
Debt crisis
Cyprus may request EU aid
11 August 2011PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus
New cabinet to combat crisis
5 August 2011PresseuropPolitis -
28 July 2011PresseuropPolitis
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Cyprus
The countdown has begun
27 July 20112Adevărul Bucharest -
Cyprus
An explosion some saw coming
12 July 2011PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus-Turkey
Tensions bubbling over oil
21 April 20112PresseuropPolitis -
Neighbourhood Policy
Dark clouds over Mare Nostrum
22 March 2011La Repubblica Rome -
Investment
Russian money flows into haven Cyprus
8 October 2010PresseuropKommersant -
Northern Cyprus
Gambling behind the green line
2 August 20102Adevărul Bucharest -
Greece / Turkey
Fish dinner diplomacy
14 May 2010PresseuropTo Vima -
19 April 20101PresseuropKibris
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16 April 2010Der Spiegel Hamburg
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Cyprus
A final settlement in 2010?
22 December 2009PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Cyprus
One more wall to go
10 November 20091Le Monde Paris -
Geopolitics
The new old order
20 October 2009The Independent London -
Immigration
Double vision on the immigrant issue
26 August 2009Le Figaro Paris -
21 July 2009PresseuropO Phileleftheros
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Marriage
Mr and Mr Smith
17 July 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Meditteranean
EU shares out (a few) immigrants
10 July 2009PresseuropLe Monde
Ten of thousands of Russians are making Cyprus their home from home. A trend that raises questions about Nicosia’s diplomatic and pecuniary relations with Moscow. 
Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. 
In a year’s time, the Republic of Cyprus will take over the rotating presidency of the EU. Between now and then, the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish government want to obtain an agreement on the division of the island. If not they will suspend talks with Europe. 
Initially ignored by Europe, the Mediterranean region was subsequently the focus of several integration projects, all of which failed to produce results. The current crisis, now striking its southern shores, is a testament to the need for a new approach. 
Under the weight of an international embargo, the Turkish part of Cyprus is trying to develop its own economic resources. The latest initiative: building casinos to attract foreign tourists. 
The Turkish residents of Northern Cyprus will go to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday. The future of their internationally ostracized republic, the most isolated in Europe, is at stake. A solution to the three-decade division between Greek southern Cyprus and the Turkish northern part of the island is nowhere in sight. 
Berlin has been reunited for 20 years, but there is another wall in Europe which is still standing. While we celebrate the anniversary of the end of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, one small corner of the European Union remains separated by a conflict that erupted 35 years ago: the Republic of Cyprus, which was been split in two since the Turkish invasion of 1974. 
With America increasingly disengaged from European affairs, and Russian influence tentative at most, the Independent wonders whether in this new age of alignments Europe might not be reverting to the order of old. 
The recent drowning in the Mediterranean of 73 Eritrean migrants has highlighted the need for a new European immigration policy. In the course of its mandate at the helm of the European Union, Sweden is planning to harmonize national legislation on asylum rights. 
Same sex couples continue to benefit from more extensive civil rights almost everywhere Europe. But de jure gay marriages are only authorized in five countries. Cafebabel.com sets out to map "gay-friendly" Europe.