Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.
In that case, the Greek-Cypriot administration will join the Union alone.
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Moreover, it is hard to see how Turkey can ever join the EU without a settlement in Cyprus, since it would first have to recognise the Greek-Cypriot government and abandon the Turkish-Cypriots.
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Turkey is obliged to open its ports and airports to Cypriot-registered ships and aircraft under an agreement extending its customs union to the ten governments, including the Greek-Cypriot one, which joined the union in 2004.
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Tasos Papadopoulos, the Greek-Cypriot president, has already said that he is against a referendum before the conclusion of negotiations.
The Greek-Cypriot president, Tassos Papadopoulos, has assured his voters that he has scores of vetoes up his sleeve.
Unfortunately this still remains unfulfilled because of continuous objections from the Greek-Cypriot side.
Greece will try hard to ensure that the ten include a soon-to-be reunified Cyprus, not just, de facto, the Greek-Cypriot half.
Under a UN special envoy, Alexander Downer, the Greek-Cypriot president (Demetris Christofias) and his Turkish-Cypriot counterpart (Dervish Eroglu since March 2010), have held 100 meetings since September 2008.
As the Greek-Cypriot president, Tassos Papadopoulos, gleefully noted in December, he will have many opportunities to veto Turkish entry: the negotiations could last for ten years or more.
Others heaped praise on the Greek-Cypriot leader, Glafcos Clerides.
Eight are formally blocked because Turkey has not kept an agreement to open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, an EU member since 2004 (Turkey does not recognise the Greek-Cypriot republic and insists that Turkish north Cyprus is being unfairly blockaded).
But if talks fail, the EU has said it is prepared to admit the Greek part alone, leaving the impoverished Turkish Cypriot community out in the cold. (The Greek bit was one of the ten countries invited to join in Copenhagen.) Were that to happen, the Greek Cypriots would most likely oppose Turkish membership for some years.
The official position of the (Greek-Cypriot) government is that unless Turkey recognises it, it might veto the opening of talks.
Yet the (Greek-Cypriot) republic, with a population of only 850, 000, will be running the EU's ministerial business for six months.
The rapprochement should consolidate over the next few months as the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot governments adopt measures to help the two economies converge.
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The country has been in financial difficulties since the collapse of the Greek economy, where Cypriot banks had huge investments.
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The original (Greek-Cypriot) owner sued for compensation and won in Cyprus.
The restructuring of Laiki and the sale of the toxic-asset laden Greek branches of Cypriot banks is expected to cut the amount the country needs to raise to about 3 billion euros instead of 5.8 billion euros, officials have said.
Mr Clerides may accept Mr Denktash's demand for a rotating federal presidency: a Greek Cypriot one time, a Turkish Cypriot the next.
Eleni Meleagrou, a lawyer specialising in reclaiming Greek Cypriot property in the north, said she herself had discovered that an area of orange groves which belonged to her father had ended up in Nadir's hands.
However the biggest problem is not on the Turkish-Cypriot side, but the lack of pressure on the Greek-Cypriots to make concessions.
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Embarrassingly for Mr Denktash, at least 2, 000 Turkish-Cypriots are said to have applied for Greek-Cypriot passports in the past two months.
The Secretary-General then met with Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christofias.
The new owners invested very heavily in Greek bonds and loans but kept it as a Cypriot bank, instead of transferring the HQ to Greece.
Cypriot Banks naively invested over the years in Greek Government Bonds, which before the global crisis, they were a guaranteed investment, so by that haircut, their investments were reduced catastrophically.
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After all, if the European Central Bank is abandoning Cypriot depositors, they may abandon Greek depositors next.
He took his case to Britain, and earlier this year the European Court of Justice ruled that, even if a Greek-Cypriot judgment against British owners were unenforceable in northern Cyprus, it could be enforced in Britain.
While Mr Karamanlis is keen to help Turkey along the road to EU membership, he must contend with elderly Greek-Cypriot leaders who doubt whether they can rub along with their Turkish-Cypriot counterparts in a federal state.
The Greek tragedy that befell Greece and its bonds has, thus, now become a Cypriot bank tragedy.
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