🇨🇾🇪🇺 As the Cypriot presidency has just begun, deep dive into our recommendations for the next six months by watching their presentation at our Cypriot Pre-Presidency Conference in October #CypriotPPC ⤵️
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To conclude this #CypriotPPC and to sum up the recommendations forwarded to the incoming Cypriot Presidency, a few remarks were given by Lucia Mokra, Chairperson of the TEPSA Board and by Mary Varda, Research Fellow at the University of Nicosia 🇨🇾🇪🇺
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What opportunities might the Cypriot Presidency have to advance the fight against climate change in the 🇪🇺 in 2026? Our experts at the #CypriotPPC discussed the challenges of the energy and green transition 🌍
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As debates on the 🇪🇺 multi-annual financial framework intensify, our Cypriot Pre-Presidency Conference panel questioned Europe's socio-economic paradigm 💸
Explore it now 👇 #CypriotPPC
We are only 1️⃣ month away from the Cypriot Council Presidency 🇨🇾 Get ready by revisiting our #CypriotPPC discussions and 📽️ watching the presentation of the TEPSA recommendations to the Cypriot presidency 🔗 youtu.be/bZvNmd_9OiM
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📸 Some memories from the #CypriotPPC - already a week ago!
💡 Leading researchers, diplomats and policy-makers from Cyprus and the TEPSA Network shared their analyses of the incoming Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU.
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As the #CypriotPPC has just concluded in Nicosia, let us stick around a little longer to explore how Cyprus views its relationship with the United States 🧐
➡️Check out the chapter on 🇨🇾-🇺🇸 relations of our book 🔗
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The #CypriotPPC is concluding with closing remarks from our Chairperson of the Board Lucia Mokra and Mary Varda, Research Fellow at the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs 🇨🇾
Thank you for following our conference! 👏
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"Due to its strategic positioning, #Cyprus is becoming a crucial EU entry hub for renewable energy", says Andreas Poullikkas from Frederick University during our discussion on EU #energy challenges.
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"The recent, massive blackout in #Spain pointed to a serious problem with EU energy security: Europe needs more #electricity storage and interconnection."
- Charles Ellinas, Councillor, @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social at the #CypriotPPC
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"Affordability remains the social problem of the transition; more and more people are experiencing #energy poverty after the COVID-19 pandemic. We must consider who will be able to afford #renewable energy sources," says Alexia Sakadaki at our #CypriotPPC.
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"The road to climate neutrality is neither linear nor simple. It demands structural change and that no one is left behind in the #transition."
- Alexia Sakadaki, Member of the Cyprus Green Party, at our #CypriotPPC.
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Last but not least, we will discuss the EU green agenda 👉 With Alexia Sakadaki from the Cyprus Green Party, @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social's Charles Ellinas, and Andreas Poullikkas (Frederick University)
📺 Check out the #CypriotPPC livestream on our YouTube channel⤵️
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"The EU was born out of a promise that our common interest will create a shared destiny. Yet, the current European architecture seems to have forgotten this as inequalities among states grow and #solidarity is waning," says Charis Polycarpou at today's #CypriotPPC
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"The EU brought numerous benefits to Europe and #Cyprus, but Europe has become more centralised. Rules are coming from top-down decision-making processes and citizens feel left behind," argues Constantinos Petrides, Cypriot Former Minister of Finance during the #CypriotPPC.
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"People have various channels to express their opinions in #democracy. Citizens from different European countries express their political views in diverse ways, from joining protests to badge-wearing."
- #ActEU @gotinakos.bsky.social presents the project's findings at the #CypriotPPC
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"Whether the EU can be the remedy to the crisis of democracy is still unsure. The EU is falling short too: law-making continues to take place in opaque dialogues, and the EU is only partly democratic," states @yiannoskats75.bsky.social at our #CypriotPPC.
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"We are witnessing a shift from a right-based democracy to an identity-based one where #citizens become more accepting of inequalities, especially when framed as protective of national values," says Andrea Kosta at the #CypriotPPC
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"The threat to #democracy is not the absence of democratic institutions but the presence of actors that continue to diminish democracy from within."
- Andrea Kosta, PhD Candidate at the University of Nicosia, during our #ActEU panel of the #CypriotPPC
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"While #enlargement has gained momentum, the reality in most of the candidate countries is that citizens feel they are stuck in the process," reminds @prieker.bsky.social at today's #CypriotPPC.
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"Self-reflection is part of the EU's DNA, it is part of our European way of life. This is not a weakness; rather it can be a powerful weapon to protect #democracy against authoritarianism."
- @gisellebosse.bsky.social, Professor @maastrichtu.bsky.social, at our #CypriotPPC
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"Today, there is a renewed sense of urgency. This should be used as an opportunity to advance the #accession of North Macedonia into the EU. This however will require compromises, sometimes very hard to make," says Professor Irena Pandeva during our #CypriotPPC.
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...and we're continuing our live coverage:
📸 Stick around here for live photography and key quotes from our speakers
👀 Head over to TEPSA's Instagram profile for the behind the scenes of the #CypriotPPC
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We are returning to the #CypriotPPC for day 2️⃣ of our conference previewing the Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union, co-organised by TEPSA, the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs and the University of Nicosia
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That’s a wrap for today’s discussions 🎬 The #CypriotPPC will be back tomorrow morning with more debates on the future of Europe 🇪🇺
In the meantime, check out our Instagram stories for more #behindthescenes from the conference!
See you tomorrow 👋
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"An update of the EU #security strategies can be useful, but what Europe needs at this point is to act. Some instruments are being implemented, but more efforts are needed to strengthen our security," comments @diis.dk's Jessica Larsen at the #CypriotPPC
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"Hybrid threats are hardening; today's challenges are becoming more serious. This has sparked questions on whether the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (#CSDP) is fit for this new security dilemma"
- Jessica Larsen, Senior Researcher @diis.dk at our #CypriotPPC
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"The EU toolbox is expanding by the day: it is investing in #defence and advancing its #preparedness roadmap. To have an effect, however, the EU has to move from rhetoric to action quickly," comments @oyvinds.bsky.social at today's #CypriotPPC.
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"The main challenge ahead of us is the crisis of #multilateralism - the idea that global problems require global solutions. In recent years, this spirit has faded, replaced by competition and inequalities," says Ambassador Kostantinos Kollias at the #CypriotPPC
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