Tim Drayton wrote:Nikitas wrote:Save your breath my friends,
Concurrently with the allegations of attacks against TC shoppers the regime is attempting to curb shopping by TCs in the south. They have a self determined limit of 150 CYP worth of goods per person and they check returning shoppers at the check points. Seeing that this is not enough to discourage shoppers they now start the bullshit campaign to terrorise them with imaginary attacks.
It is apparently OK for GCs to go north and gamble in their casinos but it is not OK for TCs to come south and visit IKEA or Orfanidis. Makes you wonder what happened with that "We are the true Europeans" crap Mr Talat was dishing out a few months back. Being in the EU means being in a FREE TRADE area. Free Trade, got that?
Senre Levent wrote about shopping in the south as a form of protest, might have been yesterday or day before. Read it, it is worth it.
Free trade? I hear you loud and clear, and I believe that genuinely free trade would set many processes in motion that would bring reconciliation closer.
However, free trade is a two way street. Why is there a limit of 135 euros on the amount of goods that visitors from the south to the north may bring back? And there are pretty stringent controls in place, including random bag searches and confiscations. As far as I can see, both sides are playing the same game.
I agree with u TİM. Both sides are playing same game. Trade and going around the island should be also without fear.