Our View: Would any girl volunteer to serve in the National Guard?

Many in the audience of the theatre on Sunday evening may have thought that President Nikos Christodoulides was joking when he said that from next year girls would be able to voluntarily enlist in the national guard as soon as they left school. This was subject to the proposal being approved by the council of ministers to which it would be submitted in a few days, said the president, who was addressing an event marking 60 years since the establishment of the national guard.

He was not...