Our View: Government fixated on EU role, not peace process

When he was campaigning for his election, President Nikos Christodoulides insisted that he would seek a more active involvement of the EU in the Cyprus problem. Superficially, this sounded like a good idea and may have won votes both from both supporters and opponents of a federal settlement, because it could be interpreted in different ways.

Shortly after his election, he went to Brussels and requested an EU special envoy be appointed for the Cyprus problem, proposing that a political...