Direct Trade - yes or no?

Troodo


Joined: 12/06/2008
Posts: 1002

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 10:25

Am I right in thinking the EU has copt out again?

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 10:26

In what way?



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Troodo


Joined: 12/06/2008
Posts: 1002

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 11:57

By postponing a decision.

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 12:08

Postponing until when?



I thought the whole Cyprus problem was going to be sorted by the end of this year?



Or was that last year?



Or the year before that?

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 12:14

The recent meeting was never going to end in a decision. EU will see how the peace talks have progressed at the end of the year and then - hopefully - they will make a decision and fulfill their promises.



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malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 12:40

The opinion was discussed at the Legal Committee but a vote on the issue will likely be postponed due to the absence of the German rapporteur, MEP Kurt Lechner, from Brussels this week. I believe they will decide that Direct Trade is illegal but their decision is not binding if the issue is then put to a vote.

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 12:51

The UK's DEFRA should have also reviewed the TRNC situation regarding pets in the EU, they were ment to be standardising/ reviewing. Apparently from their website it was supposed to be done in June this year.

They have posponed that as well. December next year is the date they have given, so i wouldn't hold your breath on direct trade.

Troodo


Joined: 12/06/2008
Posts: 1002

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:05

Well, a yes vote might go a long way in convincing a TRNC to say yes to a solution. A no, or no decision, will prove again that the EU cannot be trusted to safe guard our interests, with the opposite result.

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 14:10

To be fair it is not exactly the EU that has copped out.

They have proposed several times to implement direct trade (as promised in 2004) but the decision was subject to the veto rules and...guess what...our friends in the South vetoed it.

However, since the Lisbon Treaty, it is now a matter for majority decision so they want to try again. But the South has now objected that direct trade agreements are for non-EU countries and that TRNC is legally in the EU so it cannot be granted direct trade. It is the legal issues around this that are currently being debated.

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:19

As i unnderstand it the South no longer has the power to veto.Or have the goal posts been moved again,

Paul.

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 15:35

you're right newlad, it's about 75% to get Direct Trade through if it ever comes to the vote

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
04/09/2010 17:18

Cheers Mal,

As we seem to say on here quite alot.Lets wait and see.





Liz,

Wheres that e mail you were sending me,

Paul.

frankedad


Joined: 21/11/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:01

I had heard that the eu powers that be ,had given a dead line of december 2010 for the vote on this issue to be heard , regardless of the delaying tactics being used by GC and allies.

i hope i heard right , cant find the link for this ruling ..anyone more info ??

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 11:49

the 2010 deadline is a guideline which Turkey says should be followed because there seems to be a delaying tactic used by the south which punishes TRNC even though they voted YES to the Annan Plan in 2004. The deadline is to show Turkey's impatience and is backed up with a warning that Turkey has a Plan B they intend to implement if no solution is found. Guess we'll have to wait to see what that is