Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is the eastern-most corner of the European Union, and a strategic post throughout the centuries and layers of history. Cyprus has a robust, market-driven economy supported by a stable democracy and driven by a diverse, well-educated, skilled workforce, along with excellent telecommunications and infrastructure system and the lowest tax regime in the EU. The country currency is the euro.
These characteristics along with year-round sunshine and centuries of art and culture, perhaps constitute the best possible description in one breath, of one of the up-and-coming members of the European Union: Cyprus.