erolz66 wrote:Oceanside50 wrote: a federation could mean what there is there today or what you see in the USA ...
Sorry but to me the idea that a solution based on BBF could be exactly the same as what we have today is to me absurd.
its not absurd if you take the criteria for a BBF Federation that was outlined in the Annan Plan...
what do we have today?
The pseudo state and the RoC...both function independently of each other except for some points i.e....Passports issuance and international recognitions,,
The EU has already said that the RoC has dejure jurisdiction over the whole island...
The RoC is both the Federal government and the Greek Cypriot constituent state...it has its own legal system traffic courts, criminal courts and Supreme Court.. The pseudo state has the same thing, including its own constitution and its own Supreme Court...
Here you will find the function of the Supreme Court...it applies to Federal and State
cyprus43939-20.htmlPassports are issued by the central Federal government for both TC and GC....The Federal government/RoC makes treaties, controls the offshore resources and has and controls international ports for trade....
In the Annan plan provisions were made to the Tc constituent state, to have the authority to block freedom of movement and GC investment into the Tc state...They also had a provision where the Tc states Supreme Court would be the last resort of appeal to Greek Cypriots, not the Federal Supreme Court or European Courts of Human Rights...This means that the Tc state could enact laws against the Gc living in the Tc state and the Gc could not do anything about it, because as you have seen above in the definition of a Supreme Court, it enacts laws according to what the majority would want, especially social laws....For instance, a law could be passed in the Tc state, that taxed Gc properties at 30% of value per year, forcing the Gc to leave or sell to pay off their tax bills to the Tc state government....yes in a federal solution such as Annan, the consequences would be as we have today.....No Gc living in the Tc state, no freedom of movement/investment and the Central/Federal government being controlled by the GC majority..like we have today...
