Dr. Isabelle Ioannides, Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP’s Southeastern Europe Programme, co-authored with Dilek Latif a paper about the new Cypriot President and his government who will be thinking of ways out of the deadlock in the Cyprus negotiations.
The paper examines four external determinants that are reshaping the Cyprus problem:
- Τhe Republic of Cyprus’s (RoC) European Union membership has helped strengthen Nicosia’s international standing but has not brought the Turkish Cypriot community out of isolation.
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Τhe financial crises and dependencies in both the RoC and the Turkish Cypriot community have ultimately deepened divisions between the two and rendered the Turkish Cypriots more dependent on Turkey.
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Τhe role of the so-called motherlands – Greece and Turkey – has played out differently in each the RoC and the Turkish Cypriot community.
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Μigration is being instrumentalised across the dividing Green Line while the changing demographic patterns illustrate how Greek and Turkish Cypriots are increasingly drifting apart.
Read the working paper here.
