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Jun 1 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Some thoughts about why #Cyprus seems incapable of doing big infrastructure projects and yet #Greece despite everything seems to do them well. (Am thinking energy especially.) Some background: 1/
The #Cyprus government recently cancelled a contract (issued under its predecessor) for the upgrade of Larnaca marina. This marina a long-running saga. The previous contractors were also sacked. And if I remember right 2/
Nov 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Dear Cypriots, ahead of whatever this reveals (no I am not privy to it) a few words of advice from a pesky foreigner on how your reactions will be perceived. Thread. 1/ #Cyprus #ICIJ
If you say “foreigners are doing this so they can steal our business”, it will only make you look more guilty. 2/
Jan 11, 2022 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
OK. It has to be said. As someone who has spent big chunks of her voluntary + professional life in the past 20 years trying to help a federal solution of the #cyprob I would love this headline to to be true. But I am afraid the opinion polls say something else. #Cyprus. 1/n
Polls suggest that the historically dominant UBP of the late Rauf Denktash - the party currently all bent on a two-state solution - will come first. 2/
Jul 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
I have a really horrible feeling that the gravitational pull is towards annexation. So choice in 5 years’ time will not be 2 states v federal #cyprob solution but 2 states v formal annexation. New EU land border with Turkey anyone? How will the EU protect its TC-EU citizens then?
Am also somewhat horrified that quite a few Greek Cypriots don’t give a flying f**k about this scenario, which will inevitably see their “fellow brother compatriot Turkish Cypriots we have no problem with” locked up for protesting + generally thrown to the wolves. 2/
