Nikitas
VP asks: "arent there limits for stuff you can take from one EU country to another? "
NO there are not!! That is the whole point of the European Union and its principle of FREE TRADE. I import things from Italy and the truck is not stopped or checked at the Patras port in Greece precisely because the goods are moving in EUROPE!! It is like moving things between states in the USA!!!
Are you allowed to take meat or a plotted plant from UK to Italy? there are certain products which are restricted when crossing borders, the same applies for crossings between the "RoC" and the TRNC. Gcs are restricted and rigorously checked at crossing points for excess products, why is ok for GCs and not TCs?
What Talat is doing is trying to kill two birds with one stone- frist to underline the status of TRNC as a state and second to make some extra money for his regime from the taxes, both on the goods taxed and on the taxes on goods sold in the TRNC. The rest about isolation and embargoes is ALL BULLSHIT.
Its called fiscal policy, happens all over the world.
TCs are free to take their goods for export to the EU to Larnaca or Limassol ports with a minimum of bureuacracy. This has been stopped by the TRNC authorities. The article mentions 3800 TONS of potatoes that were stopped from being exported through Larnaca. Talat wants the export to go through Famagusta.
Minimum bureaucracy??? you are joking aren't you? GCs do everything within their power to delay and frustrate exporters and cause delays which result in big loses, no sane exporter will attempt to use GC ports.
Well let me tell you a little secret. Even if Famgusta is opened tomorrow, TC goods will still have to go through Larnaca or Limassol for export because Limassol is the only container able port on the island. The Famagusta thing is a pure propaganda ploy. Famagusta does not have container handling facilities. Neither does it have the bulk cargo ability of Larnaca.
Well let me inform you we use container imports everyday? You shoudl pay Famaguata port a visit and see for yourself how the facilities have been developed.
Part of this campaign to stop the TCs from shopping in the south is all this bullshit about attacks in the car park of IKEA. Taxing is not working and they are trying the usual underhanded tactics of lies and slander.
Cheap tricks. One whole lifetime of cheap tricks. It really is getting tiresome. And to top it all you have Talat proclaiming that he is the "true European"! This is where the EU should force him to prove it.
One way of not having to deal with the problem, not only ignore it, but blame someone else, typical GC trait.
