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The best grape harvest in years
But a glut of Cyprus wine remains unsold, raising questions what to do with stocks.
- Further measures on cards, one new death
Five-party meeting: Fig leaf on partition
What the President ought to tell the EU, Tatar and Guterres in order to save the game.
- Lethal earthquake: Moments of anguish and support in Samos and Izmir
- Mortality by COVID-19 in Cyprus at 0.7%
- Surprise recognition of Ukraine’s autocephaly by Archbishop: Archbishop’s geopolitical games
- Passport scandal: Public garrulity, instead of doing what needs to be done
- France and Europe: In front of Islamic terrorism and the conflict of religions
- British documents: Revealed Rolandis, “burned” Vassiliou, vindicated Kyprianou
- (Editorial) The kings are naked…
- Savvas Iacovides (opinion): Europe and USA raised an unscrupulous Turkish Hitler and they are obligated to stop him!
- Petros Th. Pantelides (opinion): Here Tatar, there Akinci, but everywhere Turkey
- Giannakis Omirou (opinion): The forgotten practice of illegal settling
- Marinos Sizopoulos (opinion): Two states or bizonal, bicommunal federation?
- Christodoulos Giallourides (opinion): Greek deterrence and Turkish dilemmas
Cyprus Archbishop in Moscow’s crosshairs
Russophile metropolitans undermine the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Moscow Patriarchate blackmails members of the Holy Synod and threatens Archbishop Chrysostomos of putting an end to his mention during the Divine Liturgy. Russian front of Athanasios of Limassol, Nikiphoros of Kykkos and Isaiah of Tamasos seems to be weakening due to tactical reasons. Since the Czar era and later in the Soviet Union, but also today under Putin, the Russian Church plays the role of the Kremlin’s right hand. Rehearsal for Archbishop elections?
- Analysis: What mistakes we make when we discuss international Islamic terrorism?
- Cyprus Problem: New steps or new stagnation?
He renews the “Blue Homeland”
Consolidation moves by Erdogan, Cyprus encircled, pressure on Greece. Unilateral extension of areas of activity by Ankara.
- Richters continue to shake the Aegean: Rescuers face difficult mission
- Preparations for the first test: The suspended step of the talks
- Andreas Theophanous (interview): Tatar from his English School years
- Soti Triantafyllou: Islam and Islamo-left taking Europe apart
- Transparency code by DISY for its candidates
- Neither partition nor two states
- From illusion to realisation (on Erdogan)
Parties get vertigo because of corruption
Pre-election period expected to be difficult for all.
- Negotiations should start from Crans Montana: The aim, a BBF with political equality
- Varosha’s restless Don Quixote…
- If I leave they’ll kill each other at the Synod: The Archbishops talks about the crisis in the Church
- Solution a window that closes as time passes: British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie speaks to “K”
- Macron – Erdogan relations on the edge: Concerns in Europe
- Diplomacy: Athens bets on partnerships
Zero tolerance to immoral occurrences
- They bring out the dead and the alive from under the wreckage
- (Interview Nicholas Papadopoulos) Need for change of policy, mentality, behaviour
- (Interview Hubert Faustmann) Revelations over “golden” passports will bring domino effect
- “Now do we laugh or cry?”: Citizens speak of a joke and ask for Anastasiades to quit. The scandalous decisions of the Cabinet and DISY’s amendments
What is the much talked about TOKI that Erdogan is bringing to Famagusta
It has been involved in many financial and political scandals in Turkey. It is the long arm of the Turkish President in taking over public funds. Lately it extends to selected political goals outside of Turkey, after Syria, in Famagusta. Reactions in the occupied areas over new invasion of Varosha.
- Earthquake in Samos cost 17-year-old Aris and 15-year-old Klairi their lives: They met death hugging each other – Yesterday in Izmir rescuers saved a mother with her four children that had been trapped in rubble
- Christos Panagiotidis (opinion): I’m terrified of the fact that “partition” is being discussed
- Political analysis: Is there hope after Ersin Tatar’s election?
- Coronavirus: One death and 149 cases
Main News
EU Commission: Negotiations should lead to BBF with political equality
Alithia, Haravgi, Kathimerini, Phileleftheros, Politis, Simerini, Sunday Mail
Negotiations Process, EU Matters, Regional/ International Relations, External Security, Energy
A spokesperson for the European Commission has clarified in a written statement in Kathimerini that as far as the EU is concerned, any further negotiations on the Cyprus Problem must be conducted on the basis of a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality.
The spokesperson on issues of regional cohesion and structural reforms, Veronica Favalli, told Kathimerini that the negotiations need to continue from the point where they were left off at Crans Montana and the unprecedented convergences achieved up to that point. She added that the agreed goal remains a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF) with political equality, given that all stakeholders are interested in getting involved in finding common ground.
The newspaper notes that the spokesperson’s reference to a BBF with political equality was a response to a written question specifically on how the European Commission views statements pointing to a two-state solution.
Favalli also said that the Von der Leyen Commission is also committed to provide all necessary financial assistance to a unified Cyprus, and that in the event of an agreement, the EU’s Multi-annual Financial Framework will be amended accordingly.
The spokesperson also said that if the negotiations resume, the Commission is ready to once more appoint a representative to the UN’s negotiation team.
Phileleftheros reports, citing sources, that Turkey is expected to clarify its intentions during Tuesday’s meeting between President Anastasiades and T/C leader Ersin Tatar, by pushing for a clean slate in negotiations. However the newspaper also points out that UNFICYP head Elizabeth Spehar has been instructed by UN headquarters to seek a specific result out of the meeting.
Politis reports that UNSG Guterres’s careful statements on launching a new iniative on the Cyprus Problem is connected with Ersin Tatar’s election. In an analysis, the newspaper notes that Tuesday’s meeting of the two leaders will clarify whether Turkey is ready to restart negotiations to solve the Cyprus Problem from the point where they were interrupted in 2017 or on the basis of the Anastasiades-Akinci agreement in November 2019.
The meeting will also show whether Turkey will insist on including elements in the discussion that would undermine the agreed basis of a federal solution.
The newspaper reports, citing a G/C diplomatic source, that the goal for the G/C side is for the meeting to result in three things: a joint reference framework including convergences achieved so far and the Guterres Framework, an agreement on how the process of the negotiations will play out starting with a conference including the EU, and the agreement that certain preconditions need to be met before the beginning of a process, such as an end to Turkish provocations in the EEZ.
According to the report, the T/C side is expected to seek a short timeframe for negotiations, the addition of natural gas as a seventh point to the six points of the Guterres Framework, an agreement on what will happen in case this process also fails and a precondition that the G/C side will cease efforts to sanction Turkey.
The newspaper notes that for many the discussion over a federal solution could be over, and points out that the two sides will have to consider their interests. On the one side, the T/Cs will have to consider that in a two-state solution they would not be able to be a member of the EU. On the other side, the G/C side will have to consider how they can react to Turkey’s expansionist policies if they refuse to negotiate by refusing to add new models on the table.
The analyst adds that President Anastasiades has spoken of a loose federation where the constituent states would have expanded powers, and that Ersin Tatar has spoken of a confederation as an alternative to federation, pointing out that this could lead to a compromise solution similar to Switzerland’s federal council.
Murals by seminal artist found preserved in down town Varosha
Politis
CBMs, Human Rights
OVERVIEW
Politis reports that 13 murals created by Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva in 1964 are still preserved in full colour, due to being in a basement area out of the sun, in the main hall of the Perroquet night club in the fenced-off city of Varosha.
The newspaper publishes photographs of the artworks taken by a reporter this October, after part of the fenced-off city was opened to the public by the T/C authorities.
According to the report, the artwork was commissioned by modernist architect Stavros Economou and businessman Avgerinos Nikitas during the construction of the Esperia building complex, which included a hotel, apartments, office space a restaurant and a night club. The Esperia complex is located on Democracy Avenue and its restaurant and nightclub were being rented by Nikitas from 1964 to 1973.
Nikitas told Politis that he had paid Savva directly for the artwork, which was completed over the course of several months. The nightclub, which opened officially in 1965, had been decorated with elements brought from Beirut and attracted famous Greek and international artists of the time.
The report points out that there are reports that ABBA might have been one of the groups that performed at Perroquet before they were famous, but that Nikitas could not confirm that with certainty.
Nikitas has sent a letter to the government informing them he would like to donate the artwork to the state, Politis reports. However the possibility of returning them at this stage seems low due to the political situation, the G/C head of the committee, Androulla Vasileiou, told the newspaper.