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If any resolution is to come of the Cyprus problem, the EU itself will have to agree that in some circumstances, the acquis communitaire can be ignored. The problem, however, might be: can Turkey apply that line of thinking (ignoring certain provisions of the aquis) to its own candidacy? The EU will have already approved of it once, why not twice?
Can you elaborate? Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
The Turks were to redeploy their military back to Turkey under this plan, concede territory to the Southern federation (including abandoned towns such as Varosha), and repatriate some Turkish settlers.
The one Papadopouls and the Greek Cypriots rejected in 2004 contained the same provisions as 2002-2003 except it allowed the Turkish military to stay on the island until Turkish accession to the EU, and even then allowed a Turkish military presence afterward. The gov't of Cyprus would pay restitution to all those who lost homes in the north. Turkey and Greece would remain as guarantor countries. There were other provisions that were even more jaw-dropping, as Claire Palley explains in her book, "An International Relations Debacle."
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