Although Cyprus has received plaudits from the EU and the United States for the Amalthea humanitarian sea corridor, it appears that it has little control over the operation. The Republic may be offering the port from which aid will be shipped, but it seems that the decision about when a ship will set sail and its destination are taken outside Cyprus, without the government here being informed.
Last Friday, for example the Federation of Employers and Industrialists (OEV) had urged its members...