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[insan]

Rehn called for “preliminary goodwill” by the parties for negotiations and said “stamina and patience is needed to make another effort rather soon”.

The Enlargement Commissioner also appeared satisfied with the Green Line regulation allowing trade on the island and said he expects the Council to soon take up and decide on the other two regulations providing for aid to Turkish Cypriots (259 million euros) and direct trade to the north

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 3&cat_id=1

[Piratis]

Here we go again with the copy & paste, 4 new threads from insan within minutes. As the Admin said this is a forum, not an online newspaper. If you don't have a comment about an article, then why re-post it here?

We can all find news online here:

http://www.cyprus-news.com/

and here:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Cyprus

and in many more places.

[Alexandros Lordos]

Insan,

I have a suggestion for you: Why don't you start a "news thread" and then post all new articles in the same thread? As soon as something new comes up, the thread will come back on top, and that will alert those of us who are interested to check it out.

[uzan]

Rehn called for “preliminary goodwill” by the parties for negotiations and said “stamina and patience is needed to make another effort rather soon”.

The Enlargement Commissioner also appeared satisfied with the Green Line regulation allowing trade on the island and said he expects the Council to soon take up and decide on the other two regulations providing for aid to Turkish Cypriots (259 million euros) and direct trade to the north

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 3&cat_id=1

Thank you very much Insan.I will read.

[insan]

As far as I know we were allowed by admin to post 3 lines of a news/article. I just wanted to underline the following part of the news:

The Enlargement Commissioner also appeared satisfied with the Green Line regulation allowing trade on the island and said he expects the Council to soon take up and decide on the other two regulations providing for aid to Turkish Cypriots (259 million euros) and direct trade to the north

What do you think about it? Direct trade to the North still seems highly possible.

[Alexandros Lordos]

What do you think about it? Direct trade to the North still seems highly possible.

It is possible, but I think it will require the consent of the RoC as well. This is because the legal basis of the regulation - to label the north a "third country" - has been challenged by the EU's legal advisors. That legal basis was chosen because it would not have required unanimous consent, only majority approval, but this approach seems to be collapsing now.

The best course of action for TCs, in my opinion, is to "cut a deal" with the RoC, so that they give something to GCs in return for getting direct trade with RoC approval - e.g. the return of Varosha.

[-mikkie2-]

Well, I think this will eventually happen.

Talat has already 'backtracked' by asking for joint control of all Cyprus ports. This will obviously not happen so the next step is the deal suggested by Tassos and it seems the EU is seriously considering this option.

[Bananiot]

I think Talat was mocking Tasos with his counter proposal. Isn't it obvious? He is no Denktash, to Tasos dismay!