Nicosia continues to oppose EU efforts to establish direct trade and economic links to north Cyprus as a way of encouraging the Turkish Cypriot community to continue to support reunification.

尼科西亚坚持反对欧盟努力建立同北塞普鲁斯的直接贸易和经济联系，以此鼓励土耳其籍塞浦路斯族群持续支持重新统一。

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A week later Cyprus joined the EU, with the acquis communautaire suspended in the north.

一周以后，塞浦路斯（希族）加入了欧盟，只留下塞岛北部“期待共同体”的一颗心悬着。

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The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa. Finland was the first to demand sanctions against Libya; Cyprus and Malta the last to agree.

这种异态在越靠近北非的地方越戏剧化：芬兰是第一个要求制裁利比亚的国家，而塞浦路斯和马耳他最后才同意。

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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).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Many think Cyprus should not have been let in before striking a deal to reunite the Turkish-Cypriot north with the internationally recognised south.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne