Our View: National Council’s role seems to be production of platitudes

Another National Council meeting was held on Monday so that President Nikos Christodoulides could inform the leaders of the parliamentary parties about the latest peace initiative undertaken by the UN. It is a streamlined national council as it now consists of just six leaders, two of whom – Odysseas Michaelides and Fidias Panayiotou – were attending for the first time.

There were more representatives of the government than actual party leaders at Monday’s meeting which was attended by three...