The economy of Cyprus is a high-income economy as classified by the World Bank,and was included by the International Monetary Fund in its list of advanced economies in 2001. Cyprus adopted the euro as its official currency on 1 January 2008,replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0.585274 per €1.
The Cyprus problem,also known as the Cyprus conflict,Cyprus issue,Cyprus dispute,or Cyprus question,is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island,where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed. This dispute is an example of a protracted social conflict. The Cyprus dispute stems from a Turkish military invasion of the island after a coup,and the presence of Turkish soldiers despite a legal reinstatement of a stable government. The desire of some of the ethnic Turkish peoples for the partition of the island of Cyprus through Taksim,and mainland Turkish nationalists settling in as a show of force as a supposed means of protecting their people from what they considered to be the threat of Greek Cypriots,also plays a role in the dispute.
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician,statesman,poet,writer,scholar,and journalist of Bosniak and Kurdish origin. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in 1974,1977,1978–1979,and 1999–2002. Ecevit was chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP) between 1972 and 1980,and in 1987 he became chairman of the Democratic Left Party (DSP).
Tansu Çiller is a Turkish academic,economist,and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She was Turkey's first and only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party,she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997.
The United Democrats is a liberal political party in Cyprus. The party was founded by former President of Cyprus George Vasiliou in 1993 as Kinima Eleftheron Dimokraton. The party later merged with ADISOK to form United Democrats. The party is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and an observer member of the Liberal International.
George Vassiliou is a Cypriot politician,who served as President of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993. He was also the President of United Democrats from 1996 to 2005 and Member of the Cypriot House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001. Prior to entering politics,he was a successful businessman.
Danuta Maria Hübner is a Polish politician,diplomat,and economist and Member of the European Parliament. She was European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009,when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012 Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician,who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014,and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019,Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016,Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.
Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician currently serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age since December 2019 and European Commissioner for Competition since 2014. Vestager is a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party,and of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) on the European level.
Cypriot women were greatly affected by changes in the wake of World War II,as they received expanded access to education and increased participation in the national workforce. Cyprus women have made great advancements in their society not just pertaining to education and the workplace,but also more women are beginning to hold political offices as well.
Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet is a Chilean politician and the current mayor of Providencia,a commune of Santiago,serving since 2016. Prior to her current position,she held the role of member of the Chilean Congress from 1990 to 1998,and subsequently served as a Senator from 1998 to 2011. In January 2011,she left her Senate seat to assume the role of Minister of Labor and Social Security under Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until July 2013. In the 2013 Chilean general election,she ran for President with the support of the Independent Democrat Union Party. However,she lost in a runoff to former President Michelle Bachelet.
Antigoni Papadopoulou is a Greek Cypriot politician and chemist. She was one of the first two Cypriot women to be elected as Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) among six Cypriot MEPs (2009). She is a former Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus and the First Woman to serve as Chair of the House’s Committee of Economic Affairs and Budgeting (2006–2009). She was an Assembly Member of the Council of Europe from 2001 to 2009 and has also served as Vice Chairperson of the Committee of Economic Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2003–2009).
Fatmir Besimi is a Macedonian politician and economist of Albanian ethnicity. He currently served for Minister of Finance in North Macedonia,He also served twice as Minister of Economy then Minister of Defence and after that he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs. In 2010 he was selected as one of the top European Ministers in the group of Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum.
Louka Katseli is a Greek economist and politician. Today,she is Professor Emerita of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,Member of the Governing Board of the National Bank of Greece in Cyprus,CEO of Rightholders Cooperative EDEM and business consultant for enterprises and organizations in Greece and Europe.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1873 was adopted on 29 May 2009.
Ivan Pilip is a Czech politician and economist who was finance minister from June 1997 to July 1998,after having been the Minister of Education,Youth and Sport from 1994 to 1997.
Michael Sarris is a Greek Cypriot economist and politician. He earned his B.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics &Political Science (LSE). He later continued his studies in the United States where he obtained his Doctorate in Economics at Wayne State University.
Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 17 February 2013. A runoff was held on 24 February 2013. Nicos Anastasiades of Democratic Rally won the election. The other candidates were Stavros Malas of the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL);Praxoula Antoniadou of the United Democrats;Lakis Ioannou with the support of LASOK;Loukas Stavrou;ELAM's Giorgos Charalambous,Giorgos Lillikas of Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK);and independents Andreas Efstratiou,Makaria-Andri Stylianou,Kostas Kyriacou(Outopos) and Solon Gregoriou. Although the president Demetris Christofias was not term-limited,he did not seek re-election in 2013.
Anca Dana Paliu Dragu is a Romanian economist and politician. She was Minister of Public Finance of Romania,as well as President of the Senate of Romania from 21 December 2020 to 23 November 2021. Dragu was the first woman in the history of the Senate to hold this position. In December 2023,she obtained Moldovan citizenship and was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Moldova.
Northern Cyprus and the United States do not have official diplomatic relations as the United States does not recognize Northern Cyprus as a sovereign nation and instead recognizes the region of Northern Cyprus as part of Cyprus. Despite no formal relations between the two nations,Northern Cyprus has appointed Ambassadors to the United States and has a representative office in Washington,D.C. which serves as its de facto embassy. Northern Cyprus also maintains a Representative office in New York City serving as a de facto consulate-general and as a de facto Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The United States on the other hand has a diplomatic office in North Nicosia as part of its embassy in Nicosia to Cyprus.
