Our View: Time for government to put politics aside and ensure energy supply

Top executives of ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy were at the presidential palace on Tuesday for the signing of a joint declaration with the government that gave the status of ‘marketable’ to two gas fields in Cyprus’ EEZ. Although this does not mean the gas fields would ever be developed, President Nikos Christodoulides put the obligatory positive spin on the signing of this document by resorting to platitudes.

The declaration, he said, “is clear evidence and a vote of confidence in the prospects...