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ICELAND’S RECOVERY – ECONOMICAL CRISIS AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS (by Steinngrímur J. Sigfússon). How Iceland recovered from the deep economic crisis – Presentation given at the University of Nicosia on the 21st of November, 2015 … MORE |
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AUSTERITY AND THE HAIR-CUT OF RATIONALITY (by George Koumoullis).FOR DECADES, before 2013 we had been living beyond our means. In other words, we enjoyed a standard of living much higher than the standard of living of our potential. Obviously, this well-being could not last forever – it had an expiry date. In such cases, the level of the artificial standard of living always falls … MORE |
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TROIKA, MOU AND BAIL-IN: ECONOMIC FOLLY AND AN ILLEGAL CRIME AGAINST THE CYPRIOT PEOPLE – THE “VORACITY EFFECT” AS A CAUSE OF CYPRUS STATE FAILURE (by Panayiotis Tilliros). In March 2013, uniquely discriminating against Cyprus, Eurogroup/Troika imposed an illegal “bail-in” prior to offering a conditional “bail-out” in contrast to what it had done in other … MORE |
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SAMEUL HUNTINGTON REVISITED: A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE WEST (by Robert Ellis). There is an increasing divergence rather than convergence between European and Turkish values – at least, those imposed on Turkey by its current government. Samuel Huntington in his famous 1993 essay on the clash of civilizations believed that the next world war, if there is one, will be a war … MORE |
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HOW CAN CYPRUS MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TROIKA, THE EU ELECTRICITY DIRECTIVE, CLIMATE CHANGE TARGETS WHILE LOOKING AFTER CYPRIOT CONSUMERS? (by Steve Thomas). Presentation given at the University of Nicosia on the 18th of November, 2015 … MORE
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THE GLOBAL SECURITY STRATEGY (by Gunilla Herolf). A process is now underway, led by the EU’s High Representative, Federica Mogherini, to formulate a Global Security Strategy, to be completed by June 2016. This is not a new idea: in 2003 a much praised EU Security Strategy was presented. While demonstrating a highly needed European unity, it was, however, not a real strategy since … MORE |
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THE SEMANTICS BEHIND THE ‘WATER OF PEACE’: STRENGTHENING THE DEPENDENCE OF ‘TRNC’ ON ANATOLIA (by Petros Savvides). The ceremony in the occupied northern part of the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) on 17 October 2015, in the presence of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for the inauguration of the 80 km-long underwater trans-Mediterranean fresh water pipeline … MORE
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“C” EST UN ACTE DE GUERRE”: THE RETURN OF FRANCE’S REIGN OF TERROR (by Anna Koukkides-Procopiou). As President Hollande stood there ashen-faced, declaring the attacks against unsuspecting civilians in Paris ‘an act of war’* and the pursuit of the attackers ‘merciless’, these words came to mind: “The National Convention declares, in the name of the French people, that it … MORE
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