Last year more than 13.000 migrants arrived on the divided island of Cyprus turning the Republic in the south into the EU member with the highest number of migrants and asylum seekers per head in the EU. This podcast discusses the reasons and consequences of this surge in numbers as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the situation of the refugees in Cyprus. Hubert Faustmann, the director of the FES Office in Cyprus talks about those issues with one of the leading experts, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Professor for Sociology and Law at the University of Nicosia and director of the Center for Fundamental Rights in Cyprus.