fi wrote:Have you read the Anan plan? It does exactly that, very sad.
I have not studied the annan plan in detail in regard to the sovreign bases. If you can provide me with a link or quote of the relevant section I will be more than happy to share my views on this section.
fi wrote:But what are those fears. What do you think could happen specifically, it's no good just saying all this generic stuff.
I fear that GC may pass legislation in a 'unitary' cyprus that materialy affects the TC community differently to TC, and against the will of TC.
If you want me to speculate on a specific hypothetical example of such legislation I will do so, as long as you agree to not come back and say 'but thats all hypothetical' and dismiss it as such.
Let's imagine legisaltion that seeks to limit or place extra conditions on foreign investment in Cyprus from countries outside the EU. You may think such a hypothetical senario is unrealisitic nut many countries have enacted just such legisaltion so to me it is perfectly reasonable to imagine that Cyprus might wish to do the same.
Now lets assume that TC business get 70% of their foreign investment from non EU countries and GC businesses get only 5% of their foreign investment from non EU countries.
In your purely 'unitary' Cyprus model there would be nothing that TC could do to stop a GC numerical majority imposing this legisaltion on them despite the fact that it would affect TC businesses to a much greater degree than TC ones. I want a system that would give the TC community a right to block such differential legisaltion. Thius the TC community could say 'hang on a minute this will prejudice TC businesses vs GG businesses - lets review and revise this legislation so that it does not have such a comparative deterimental affect on TC vs GC, or we will not be able to give our consent'.
This is just one 'hypothetical' senario. I can think of others and I am concereded also for the potential of such differential legislation in areas that I can not today forsee - for I am not able to see the future or double guess all it's possible course.