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The Cyprus piece reads like a political thriller. Patriarch-turned-sovereignist-hero, betrayal by the NATO-dominated motherland to the advantage of the NATO-favoured enemy juggernaut, assassination attempts, pogroms, communists and resuscitated fascists ... Had me hooked in a way the pieces on Germany and France are existentially unable to.

Gives me urge to write something comparative on cyprus malta left politics.

Feels slightly dated (written right before the banking crisis, concerning Le Pen Sr, Oskar Lafontaine as an SPD cadre,...) but enlightening wrt Euro integration 1945-2005. Anderson buffets you with party-political, cultural, social and economic concatenations, but his elegant argumentation functions as a sturdy guiderope.