This is how I predict Cyprus will look on April 16 2020
Here is how I imagine the news feed will look
-The Federal Republic of Cyprus is a full Nato member state.
- President of Cyprus Ali Erel is on an official visit to meet President Chelsea Clinton in Washington.
- The Cypriot Foreign Minister Marios Garoyan signs a strategic partnership agreement with his Turkish counterpart. The two Ministers discuss the extension of an energy pipeline bringing water, electricity, gas and oil to Cyprus.
- UBP merges with DIKO to become the Progressive Conservative Party (PCP)
- AKEL, BKP and YKP (along with many former CTP supporters) become The New Socialist Alliance
- CTP, EDEK and TDP merge to become the Cyprus Social Democrat Party (SDP)
- DISY, DP, ORP become the Liberal and Libertarian Faction (LvLF)
-40% of Cyprus' population are recent migrants from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Africa and Indonesia.
- Cyprus has a ethnic, race and religious relations act - Discrimination is illegal
- Cyprus develops laws to ensure women receive equal pay otherwise businesses are fined.
- Supersonic jets that go around the globe in 45 minutes means that Tahiti is now the favourite holiday destination for Cypriots
- 45% of Cypriot men have Indian / African / Thai wives, 46% of women have Arab or South American husbands
- The terms 'Greek Cypriot' and 'Turkish Cypriot' expire as virtually all Cypriots are now mixed or involved in mixed relationships.
- PIK tv is bought over by a giant multi-national Mexican-Morrocan TV company
- A new strain of nvHIV hits the region, health ministers agree to meet in Addis Ababa for a conference.
- Former Cypriot soldiers, students and teachers sue the Govt over psychological damage through nationalist proganda 11 years ago.
- Cyprus' top 5 trading partner is Iraq, Somalia, Turkey, Algeria and China
- Cyprus adopt Dutch laws to protect sex workers
- Casinos are legalised
- New motorways are constructed between Kyrenia-Nicosia, Famagusta to Larnaca and Paphos to Nicosia by Lefka / Lefke.
- Cyprus' population increases to 1,365 989
- Around 62% of Cypriots are bilingual in Greek and Turkish. 70% speak English.
- Campaigns intensify to standardise Cypriot-Greek and Cypriot-Turkish with linguists finally agreeing on a grammar for both idioms.
- Traffic is the biggest problem in Cyprus as car ownership peaks at 810,099. Nicosia is choked by traffic.
- The Cypriot Minister of Health Angela Christou-McKenzie launches a national campaign for skin cancer screening as skin cancer incidents increase 10 fold in 10 years.
- The Mayor of Nicosia Sarah-Jane Petrides- Singh (SDP) opens the city's new light railway and tram system bought from Canadian company Bombardier.
- The contract to Cyprus National Railways is awarded to Spanish-Iraqi company ConnexMedStar for 239,899,776,999,567,667 euros
- Cypriot singer Anna Vissi retires
- Noble Prize winners Mehmet Ali Talat remarries his secretary Yonca Senyigit
while Noble Prize winner Dimitris Christofias attends the funeral of Cuba's Raoul Castro looking frail
- Cyprus rocked by a gay sex scandal as Cypriot Finance Minister Ozcan Lanitis-Edwards resigns in disgrace. The Minister was caught with a Senegalese male escort in a Brussels hotel room.
- The Federal Republic of Cyprus and Turkey warn Syria over its planned construction of a Nuclear Facility in Latakia. Relations are strained.
- Cyprus opens an Embassy in the new Republic of Palestine
- Cyprus legalises Euthanasia despite a hysteric reaction by the clergy
- Cyprus legalises same sex marriages
- Britain's first Black Prime Minister Diane Abbott announces her intention to visit Cyprus, where Iran and Piracy will be on the agenda. She replaces outgoing PM David Miliband.
- Former British PM David Cameron buys a villa in the new affluent development of Akamas for 110,998,667 euros
- The Cypriot Minister for the Environment and Public Works contracts a Indian-Chinese company to build tsunami protectors on the island's coast line at a cost of 345 672 234 907 675 567 dollars
- Cyprus reclaims land around the Karpaz / Karpasia peninsula, which is used for eco-tourism.
- Over-priced and over-populated Cyprus forces Cypriots to buy second homes in up-and-coming Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Simerini and Volkan newspapers are bought by the retired Rupert Murdoch who plans to turn it into a sex newspaper.