The quiet contest among the Mediterranean’s small players

There is a competition running across the Mediterranean that rarely makes the front page, because it moves too slowly to count as news. It is the contest between the region’s small states and island economies for something scarcer than tourists: people who stay, and the capital that follows them.

Cyprus is a player in this contest whether it likes it or not, and two of its more instructive rivals, Greece and Malta, are worth watching closely, because each is testing a different answer to the...