Nikitas wrote:Simon,
Cyprus has already done something. The most significant thing it has done in many years, it has entered into a defence agreement with France. This is the first venture of Cyprus as a nation outside the Agloamerican sphere of influence. Hopefully it will lead to other things and to some elevation of the culture of the island as a whole. We have been too stolid, too fixed in our ways influenced by England and later by the USA. There are other powers in the world and other ways of doing things. The major power in the Mediterranean is France, and it would be strange not to have close ties with that country. It is certain that this move will be followed by others as Cyprus begins to discover that fit is an independent country. We forget that sometimes.
You know, France is not a universally loved country either...