Our View: Government had no choice but to give consent to Turkey attending EU meeting

The government was at pains to justify its approval of the EU invitation to Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan to attend the informal meeting of the General Affairs Council on August 29. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis was given this thankless task, but did not make a very good job of it.

A few hours after the news broke, Letymbiotis told the Cyprus News Agency: “The consent of the Cyprus Republic constitutes a strategic political move of high importance and a practical show of good will and sincere political will...