Podium
If Only There Were No Goodbyes
Travel is beautiful until a single polite notification cancels not just a flight and plans but the very illusion of control, leaving hearts caught between the places we are leaving and the ones we return to.
Podium
Cyprus at the Start of 2026: Hope with a Seatbelt On
Realism, restraint and the limits of pressure politics
Conversations
Holguín: Cyprus Talks Show Promise, But Premature 5+1 Meeting Risks Derailing Fragile Momentum
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy says revived dialogue has opened a rare window after years of deadlock, but warns that poor sequencing, rushed internationalisation and lack of substance could once again derail the process.
THE HIVE
Strategic denial, grand alignments and the illusion of permanence in Cyprus
No settlement process can advance on foundations where one community’s trauma is minimized and the perpetrators of that trauma are celebrated.
Cyprus Divided
Premature Multilateral Could Derail Momentum, Holquin Says
Cyprus talks show promise, the UNSG's personal envoy noted in an interview with ANKA, but disciplined preparation and tangible convergence on the ground is needed.
