In its first serious piece of legislation, Hungary's new Fidesz centre-right government is giving the 2.5m-odd ethnic Magyars abroad the right to Hungarian passports.

ECONOMIST: Hungary and Slovakia

Embarrassingly for Mr Denktash, at least 2, 000 Turkish-Cypriots are said to have applied for Greek-Cypriot passports in the past two months.

ECONOMIST: Rauf Denktash is asked to think again