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In Cyprus, the European Court of Human Rights' decisions are frequently portrayed as rendering one side victorious against the other. In this paper the authors argue that the decisions of the Court serve only to define the outer parameters within which the parties have a degree of political space to arrive at a mutually acceptable compromise. In seeking to contribute to a better appreciation of these parameters, they maintain that the Court’s recent judgments do no more – and no less – than to exclude the more extreme aspects of the proposals that have been put forward by both sides.