An Assessment of Relations between the Republic of Cyprus and the EU: The Rhetoric Vs the Record

POLICY PAPER SERIES 3/2022 November 2022 An Assessment of Relations between the Republic of Cyprus and the EU: The Rhetoric Vs the Record Andreas Theophanous 3/2022 November 2022 An Assessment of Relations between the Republic of Cyprus and the EU: The Rhetoric Vs the Record Andreas Theophanous An Assessment of Relations between the Republic of Cyprus and the EU: The Rhetoric Vs the Record 3/2022. [...] The UK advised President Vassiliou to focus on the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue and to seek accession after the resolution of the problem. [...] THE IMPACT OF THE EU ON THE CYPRUS PROBLEM During the 1990’s, the mainstream hypothesis was that the accession process would act as a catalyst for the solution of the Cyprus problem. [...] The socioeconomic impact was severe: drastic reduction of the standard of living, dramatic increase of the number of people under the poverty line, decline of the middle class and the rise of inequality. [...] This in an indication of the failure 23 of the Memorandum to tackle the actual problems of the economy and also of the Troika policies.