Cyprus is ready to resume talks about a reunification of the island immediately, eight years after the last round of UN-backed negotiations collapsed in Switzerland in 2017.

β€œI’m ready to resume negotiations even next week,” Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said on Euronews’ flagship interview programme The Europe Conversation, a good two months before the start of the Cypriot EU presidency.

His declaration comes on the heels of the landslide victory of pro-EU Social Democrat Tufan ErhΓΌman as leader of the Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus.

ErhΓΌman ran on a platform of reunification of Cyprus under a federal model, reviving hopes of

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