Unite Cyprus Now calls for confidence building measures

[Paphos Life]

Pro reunification group UniteCyprusNow (UCN) have called for the immediate implementation of confidence-building measures, raising concerns that recent actions taken on both sides of the divide have created tension and caused discontent among the people of Cyprus....

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[jeba]

Judging from my experience with German reunification I can only say to those wanting reunification: Be careful what you wish for. It might have side effects you hadn´t considered. Like e. g. all of a sudden having a lot or people entitled to the pension pot without having paid contributions. Just to give an example. Maybe the price is worth paying but I´m missing awareness that there will be a price to pay.

[Dominic]

It was hardly their fault that they couldn't pay contributions.

[jeba]

It was hardly their fault that they couldn't pay contributions.

Of course not. But it wasn´t the fault of Western pensioners either.

[Mike J]

At least the Germans were sensible enough to set land and housing compensation at 1947 levels. The proposals here for compensation at todays property levels would I understand make several hundreds of people millionaires but bankrupt the new federated country before it got off the ground.

[jeba]

Usually those formerly dispossessed of their properties received them back. Which of course in many cases caused trouble as well since e. g. tenants who lived there didn´t want to move out or pay the suddenly much higher rents while at the same time being made redundant by their no longer competitive employers. Reunifications are cans of worms.