(Special report by Camille-Cerise Gessant and Lionel Changeur)
INTRODUCTION
On 1 July 2012, the Republic of Cyprus took over the rotating presidency of the European Union for the first time. It will certainly have its work cut out for it during its six months at the helm. Fully occupied with negotiations over a bailout plan to help its banks achieve their capital requirements and to arrange a wider structural adjustment plan for itself, this little island in the eastern Mediterranean will...