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Fiona Mullen, #Cyprus geek: economy, fiscal, energy, #natgas, banks, #cyprob, northern Cyprus, Director Sapienta Economics https://sapientaeconomics.com/about-us/
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Listen to a 30-min crash course on where we are at with the #Cyprus problem and why it is so intractable with our Director Fiona Mullen talking to Turkey Book Talk. #cyprob turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/29/f...

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As a Turkey expert, I'm embarrassed by how little I *really* know about Cyprus. This @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social conversation with @fionamullency.social was fascinating and hugely useful turkeybooktalk.com/2025/04/29/f...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

So #Cyprus abolished its scheme in October 2020. But we still have a golden visa scheme so I wonder whether that is also affected.

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We’ve got a massive power blackout in Spain and Portugal, now spreading into France. Renfe, Spain’s national railway company, says the entire National Electricity Grid was cut off. Cause as yet unknown.

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US tariffs could affect Cyprus in ways that policymakers might not be expecting. Our Director Fiona Mullen talks to Alexander Apostolides, who gives some advice one what to do about it. #Tariffs #Cyprus islandtalks.fm/podcast/figu...

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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

Truly bonkers that it's not a bigger deal that Trump straight up lied about Xi calling him. And it wasn't a misunderstanding. Look at the transcript! He's just straight up lying about top-level diplomatic efforts affecting every corner of our economy and millions of people's jobs.

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I was wondering this morning when they would get round to cannibalism.

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If there is anything that makes me believe that the UK can’t be back in the EU for a generation or more it’s this sort of Britsplaining extrawurst bullshit. “We will consent to rejoin if you fundamentally remake your whole Union according to our preferences”.

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

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I am trying to remember whether all the other autocracies that slid into autocracy were brazen enough to arrests judges (as distinct from blackmailing/coercing/bribing them etc).

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Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting https://www.ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4c39-a940-830ce156c235

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How Covid-19 changed the Cyprus problem. Latest free article from our Director, Fiona Mullen. #Cyprus #Cyprob open.substack.com/pub/sapienta...

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A burglar who fled a garden centre with a trolley full of stolen shrubs and flowers and left a trail of compost behind him to lead gardaí to the man's home nearby has been jailed for six months

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Dramatic reporting from Haaretz Yaniv Kubovich confirms: killing of the paramedics was a cold blooded massacre. -Israel had allowed unrestricted movement of civilians on route -Forces were aware of ambulance traffic -Troops shot from close range, as paramedics yelled that they are first responders

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UK considers changes to stop GB Energy using forced labour solar panels reut.rs/3RwacR5

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Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions reut.rs/42Vhp3x

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Pope Francis has died. A rare moral voice, humanist, Jesuit, Latin American. He washed the feet of women and Muslim prisoners. He stood with migrants, the planet, the poor, the LGBTQ+. A counterweight to cruelty. In these troubled times, his example will be sorely missed.

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Why do website developers let you fill in all your details before telling you “this product doesn’t deliver to Cyprus”? Is it some off-the-shelf software they can’t be arsed to change? Or a data-gathering thing? 😡

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US multinational companies are extending their currency hedges to longer periods to shield their cash flows from potential exchange rate volatility triggered by the Trump administration's tariff policies reut.rs/3GgJBoC

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

yes, equity markets are shut in Europe, but:

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Stephen did more prep for this than the entire Trump administration

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 438 comments

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

submitted 9 days ago • 573 comments

In a dissent released on Saturday, Justice Samuel Alito Jr., joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that in his view, the Supreme Court’s decision to intervene overnight to block the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans under a wartime law was not “necessary or appropriate.”

submitted 9 days ago • 229 comments

I'm working on the talk I'm giving this week that I agreed to do a month ago, but I'm kind of struggling with it after this week. I need some help from y'all. Please respond only if you're trans/nonbinary — what does "queer resilience" look like, for you, in 2025? Where are you finding hope? Joy?

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

FED WATCH: “.. shocks to the supply chain are increasing by the day. Ford is halting shipments of F-150s, China is putting export controls on rare minerals, halting LNG imports, and cancelling Boeing orders, .. and air travel between the US and Canada is plunging by 70 percent.” #SummerOfScarcity

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

and what I have noted is how few of those Ket rants now make it on here, thats a good thing !

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Your huge belly laugh of the night: Trump is throwing Vance under the bus. Trump is planning to put Vance in charge of a task force to tackle the spiralling prices and other systemic shocks caused by Trump’s insane tariff war with China. Hint: there is no solution. But Vance gets the blame.

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

This will be quite difficult to spin, incurring reputational damage for Turkey’s ruling elites.

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This is how Greeks and Greek Cypriots celebrate Easter. It is a noisy affair involving candles, singing, fireworks and often firecrackers (very loud) and eggy soup tonight and tomorrow lots of souvla. Χριστός Ανέστη from Cyprus.

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Well www.turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/b...

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Why are so many households in #Cyprus struggling financially? Our Director Fiona Mullen digs into the numbers. open.substack.com/pub/sapienta...

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