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Maltese foreign minister: ‘We need to implement legal paths of migration into Europe’
Malta is the EU's smallest member state by size and population. It joined the bloc in 2004 and is perhaps best known around the world as a sunny Mediterranean holiday…
The 51 Percent
Parity on the frontline: U.N. seeks to boost number of female peacekeepers
In this special edition, Annette Young heads to Cyprus, an island still divided between its Greek and Turkish communities. Helping to keep the peace in this long-forgotten…
Talking Europe
From Italy to Cyprus via Hungary: A look back at key events in Europe
This week we're taking stock of the first half of the year in Europe. Already we've seen anti-system parties take power in Italy, Hungary's prime minister consolidate his grip on…
Europe Now
Reunifying Cyprus: Hopes and fears, 44 years on (part 2)
Barbed wire, checkpoints, abandoned buildings and military bases: all of these are common sights in Cyprus - a country that remains split in two, 44 years after the Turkish…
Europe Now
Reunifying Cyprus: Hopes and fears, 44 years on (part 1)
Barbed wire, checkpoints, abandoned buildings and military bases: all of these are common sights in Cyprus - a country that remains split in two, 44 years after the Turkish…
Talking Europe
Greek Cypriot negotiator: 'We stand a chance' of reunifying Cyprus
Forty-four years on from the Turkish military invasion that left Cyprus split in two, and two weeks after the election that could relaunch peace talks, we meet the chief…
Cyprus president re-elected with eyes on new peace deal
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday won re-election for a second term, seeing off a leftist challenger with vows to restart talks to unify the island and cement an…
Repairing Greco-Turkish ties gets off to a rocky start
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish head of state to visit Greece in more than six decades on Thursday in a landmark trip that quickly exposed long-held…
Peacemaker? Erdogan's historic visit to Greece
Even when Recep Tayyip Erdogan is supposed to be burying the hatchet, the Turkish president still somehow manages to take on all comers. He kicked off an historic two-day visit…
Talks to reunify Cyprus end in collapse
Talks to reunify the divided island of Cyprus collapsed in the early hours of Friday, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said after a stormy final session.
UN chief urges Cyprus' leaders to reach 'historic' peace deal
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called Friday on rival Cypriot leaders to seize a "historic opportunity" to bring peace to their island, at negotiations aimed at ending its…
Greek Cypriot negotiator: 'We regret that Turkey is distancing itself from Europe'
Our guest is Andreas Mavroyiannis, the Republic of Cyprus’s top diplomat for the peace process with the Turkish Cypriots. "We would have liked [Turkey’s EU] accession process to…