Makarios Drousshiotis is talking through his ass! Here is the proof:
he says that in the event that the Annan plan had been accepted and Turkey subsequently did anything to disturb the settlement it would have caused problems in the EU. That it would be tantamount to Russia attacking Estonia.
The man is a wanker! This is exactly what happened with the Imia crisis. Turkey landed troops on undisputed EU territory. And what did the EU do? NOTHING!
Turkey unilaterally claims EU territory in the form of dozens of uninhabited Greek islets, what is the EU doing? It is calling this unilateral claim a "dispute" and turns its back. Turkey even claimed the island of Gavdos, south of Crete as being Turkish and it was not the EU that told them to piss off but the USA. Gavdos is inhabited by the way so the EU ignored claims that jeopardized the life and well being of its citizens.
EU solidarity works in cases you are a member of the in crowd. Greece and Cyprus are not in the in crowd. Spain is that is why the occupation of a Spanish island by Morocco was immediately challenged.
Droushiotis mentions the dangers of the present policy, without specifying them. He says that there is no problem in losing the sovereignty offered by the Republic of Cyprus. But that is exactly the problem stressed by the legal services of the Republic, by to lawyers who are civil servants, not politicians.
There is nothing with bending over backwards to accomodate the Turkish Cypriots. But there is plenty wrong with bending forwards to accomodate Turkey.