The European Union is the answer to the challenges of our times, Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said Saturday in a post on X on Europe Day.
Noting that it has been 76 years since the Schuman Declaration, which laid the foundations for the European project, Kombos notes that in the years following the devastation caused by the Second World War, Europe’s visionaries looked towards the future. ‘They bequeathed to us the idea of European integration, economic cooperation and political partnership’, he said.
The Republic of Cyprus, he said, ‘as the current rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU, is contributing to this effort and is working towards strengthening cooperation’, ‘for an Autonomous Union, Open to the World’ and for a more competitive and enlarged EU and with the Republic of Cyprus ‘actively participating, acting and remaining steadfastly supportive of the European Union’. ‘For all European citizens, for our present and our future. For a Cyprus, reunited, free and prosperous, founded on European principles, values and the acquis Communautaire’, he concludes.