If evidence were needed of the provincial nature of the Cypriot press - the headline of the Cyprus Sunday Mail is "Boarding Pens Fury at Airport" refers to the rage of passengers in Paphos who are being kept, nominally for twenty minutes or so but allegedly for over an hour, in outdoor pre-boarding areas to facilitate quick turnaround times for low-cost airlines. There is an issue, and one which would clearly infuriate passengers, the more so as the airport blandly denies any problem. But Cyprus is in a state of economic crisis, with negotiations ging on re an EU bailout. It's also a divided country with UN troops still patrolling the green line. On the positive side there are great hopes of the offshore oil (the difficulty being that it's off a number of other mid East shores as well). So maybe the headlines aren't indicative of a provincial view but of a preference for dealing with the manageable. Or unmanageable as the case may be.
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