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...The Cypriot company records show that 76 per cent of GOI Energy is held by Argus New Energy Fund, whose shareholders are two Nicosia-based lawyers. Bobrov owns a 20 per cent stake....
...Kiteserve operates from PwC offices in Nicosia and Limassol....
...A rise in tensions between Ankara and Athens and Nicosia, which might lead to pressure for more EU economic sanctions on Turkey, after a package of rather limited measures imposed in 2020 3....
...Berg, like Ressler, cut his teeth at junk bond financier Michael Milken’s Drexel Burnham Lambert and was at Apollo in the early 1990s....
...Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has previously said he stands ready to resume peace talks, but both Nicosia and Athens have rejected the idea of a sovereign northern Cypriot state....
...The spat — which Nicosia insists it wants to resolve — has highlighted how the system of unanimity in EU foreign policymaking can hobble the 27-member bloc’s efforts to exert influence internationally....
...But EU officials and civil society activists questioned whether Nicosia would try to relaunch the scheme in amended form....
...About an hour from Nicosia, its sprawling cluster of new builds radiate from a long corniche....
...If Nicosia doesn’t give the go-ahead on Monday, the sanctions debate may move up to the leaders’ summit agenda....
...Nicosia lifted its opposition in the early hours of Friday after fellow EU member states agreed at a summit in Brussels to issue a veiled threat of sanctions against Ankara over its contentious energy exploration...
...“We want a Turkish Cypriot state,” he said, speaking in his office in north Nicosia, against a backdrop of the Turkish and northern Cyprus flags and a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founding...
...Turkey also believes its own southern coastline gives it economic rights in waters off Cyprus that Nicosia sees as part of its territory. Where has gas been discovered?...
International Criminal Court decides to investigate alleged crimes committed by US troops
...Mr Low then bought a €5m house in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa and made a brief trip to Nicosia in September 2015 to pick up a Cypriot passport, under an official scheme that offered citizenship to foreigners...
EU urged to stand up to Erdogan’s threat to ‘open the gates’ to migrants
...michael.peel@ft.com...
...The Low case has proved particularly embarrassing for Nicosia, since he was given a passport months after serious allegations against him started to appear in the media....
...Yet past cases have come back to haunt Nicosia....
...Nicosia has defended its passport offer as “a driver for economic growth in the construction industry and for services offered by lawyers, accountants and other professions”....
...Here’s a (pre-lockdown) FT Magazine dispatch by Michael Peel....
...Bankers Association, Washington DC, US Lawmakers are right to intervene on FASB rule / From Christos Rotsas, FCA, Former Member of Parliament, Nicosia, Cyprus...
...The alleged use of Cyprus as the unwitting gateway for the hack is likely to intensify some EU states’ security focus on Nicosia, after concerns about Russian money and influence there....
...LLP, Brussels Mel Marquis European University Institute, Florence Christian Ahlborn Linklaters LLP, London Simon Pritchard Linklaters LLP, London Anastasios A Antoniou Antoniou McCollum & Co LLC, Nicosia...
...He is on the phone from Cyprus, where he has just opened an exhibition of his work at the capital Nicosia’s largest contemporary art gallery NiMAC....
...Letters in response to this article: Bumptious ‘Hanseatics’ put the EU in a bad light / From Christos Rotsas, Nicosia, Cyprus Europe was built on trade so it’s not about to stop / From Michael Ferndale...
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