Decision time looms on interconnector

Will the government cross the Rubicon, take the plunge – pick your idiom – this coming Tuesday when all the players sit down in Nicosia for a powwow on the Great Sea Interconnector? Perhaps. But whatever happens, it does appear that decision time looms and that the Cypriot side is under a great deal of pressure to give the green light.

Two main issues: first, the Cypriot side may not have done its prep work on time and thus left it to the last moment when the walls began closing in. But you could also read it another way...