"Money to bring Turkish Cypriots closer to Europe
By Simon Bahceli
THE TURKISH Cypriot community is undergoing a process of ‘Europeanisation’ that the EU hopes will see it fit to join the rest of Cyprus in the bloc within six years – but only if the island’s decades-old divide is resolved by then.
“We don’t know the date of a comprehensive settlement, but we do know the Turkish Cypriot community will have to implement EU rules correctly,” Head of the EU’s Taskforce for the Turkish Cypriot community Andrew Rashbash told a press conference in Nicosia yesterday.
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