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by **pantelis** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:05 am

"But now that the island is a member of the EU, it has to accord its minorities the same sort of protection that the EU is asking Turkey to provide.”

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 7&cat_id=1

I have been accused, on this forum, that I come up with all sorts of odd ideas. This time though, it is not just my ideas. I have not read the "economist", which I have very little respect for its articles (I regard it as a magazine/instrument of pathetic British propaganda, which should be distributed free and which I refuse to pay a single cent for it), but I read it in the Economist's Cypriot side-kick, the Cyprus Mail!
Coincidence?

by **pantelis** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:38 am

Conclusion:

The events of last spring have shown that a negotiated settlement is possible but have raised questions about the ability of Britain and its EU partners to sustain the political effort needed to achieve one. In view of the high cost of the dispute between the two nationalities in Cyprus over the last half century, it is essential that impetus towards normalization be resumed and synchronized with Turkey's own EU accession process. Otherwise, the Cyprus situation will, sooner or later, create fresh difficulties, which, because of the new EU dimension to the dispute, may be more serious than those of the past.

What does he mean by "political effort"?
What difficulties and which past, is this guy talking about?

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti ... ewsid=8629

by **insan** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:25 pm

pantelis wrote:
"But now that the island is a member of the EU, it has to accord its minorities the same sort of protection that the EU is asking Turkey to provide.”

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 7&cat_id=1

I have been accused, on this forum, that I come up with all sorts of odd ideas. This time though, it is not just my ideas. I have not read the "economist", which I have very little respect for its articles (I regard it as a magazine/instrument of pathetic British propaganda, which should be distributed free and which I refuse to pay a single cent for it), but I read it in the Economist's Cypriot side-kick, the Cyprus Mail!
Coincidence?

Of course... Cyprus has to accord Maronites, Latins and Armenians.