Sitting in the spokesperson’s office at the Filoxenia Conference Center, the desk stacked with piles of leftover CY2026 stickers and notepads, we’re suddenly distracted by the sound of someone down the hall bursting into loud, lusty song.
Marilena Raouna looks a little bit startled – then laughs. “You see?” she tells me. “Happiness. Day zero!”
It’s the last day of June, and the last day of the Cyprus EU presidency.
