Annan Plan
Cyprus: Is the path to Presidency a path to reunification? It is a “game” of vision…
By Nicos Antoniades In his 1968 book “The Selling of the President”, McGinniss said that “You sell your candidates and your programs the way a business sells its products”. Fifty years later, how relevant are McGinniss’ words and how a President can sell his “products” and satisfy his people, especially when a “product” is called “freedom” like […]
An Annan Plan for Turkey’s Kurds
By Marcus Templar Greek Cypriots, the majority population on the Island of Cyprus, overwhelmingly rejected a plan for reunification with the island’s small Turkish minority developed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a referendum on April 24, 2004. The majority Greeks regarded the solution offered by Annan as impractical and unfair, while the […]
Rebutting Rector Attalides’s Position: “The Cyprus Problem in 2004″…
By Aris Petasis* In his article “The Cyprus Problem in 2004: Three Differences from 2004 and One Similarity” appearing in the September, 2013 issue of In Depth Rector Attalides of the University of Nicosia writes, “In 2004 one of the issues impeding a solution was that the economically overconfident Greek Cypriot community was convinced by […]
Advanced democracy is the answer to Cyprus’ economic woes
By Dr Aris Petasis Not surprisingly: a.) the most economically competitive countries in the Global Competitive Index 2013/14 of the “World Economic Forum” are those with advanced democratic systems: Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Holland, etc., b) on the Happiness Index of the “World Happiness Report” of the UN (2013) the citizens of the above […]