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...against a soundtrack of thumping music and the high-pitched shrieks of revelers. The cruise liner is the latest cheap-and-cheerful venture from Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Ten years after U.K.-based easyJet - now one of the largest intra-European airlines - took off, there's an easy way to do almost anything. In the last six months alone, the easy brand - owned by Stelios' easyGroup - has lent its name to an online movie-rental operation, a mobile-phone operator and a pizza-delivery service. Expect budget motor insurance this month, and a bare-bones hotel in west...
Industry experts predict another Easy success. Traditional cruise lines, they say, won't be threatened unless Hadji-Ioannou adds bigger boats to the Riviera lines. The Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur last week said he was talking with the world's largest cruise operator, Carnival Corp., in hopes of finding a strategic partner...
Just as Greek Cypriots were getting ready to join the European Union, they voted down a United Nations plan to unify their island - killing what may have been the last chance to heal Cyprus' 30-year division. Their Turkish-Cypriot neighbors were left out of the E.U accession bash. So why were the Turks celebrating last week? Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the "most successful event" for Turkish diplomacy in 50 years; Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül declared the start of a "new era." Their joy springs from the fact that Turkey's real goal...
...longer an obstacle." No sooner had the last no vote on the U.N. plan been counted than Turkey was reminding the world that, despite opposition at home, it had pulled out all the stops to get to yes. As a reward, E.U. foreign ministers voted to ease Turkish Cypriots' economic isolation, provide j259 million in aid, and open the new de facto E.U. border on the island to Turkish Cypriot goods. But Turkey wants a bigger prize. In Cologne last week, Erdogan pressed Turkey's case with a mixture of mild warnings and warm reassurances. Shutting Turkey out could encourage...
Tassos Papadopoulos is pleased. In a televised address two weeks ago, the Greek Cypriot leader urged his people to vote oxi (Greek for no) in the April 24 referendum on the latest United Nations plan to reunite the Greek and Turkish sides of the Mediterranean island. Since then, Greek Cypriots have taken up their President's call with fervor. Oxi fever is sweeping southern Cyprus: the slogan screams out from highway billboards, T shirts and posters; one hearse in Paphos drove to the graveyard with an oxi sticker on the windshield. From the pulpit, Cypriot Orthodox priests have pilloried...