Despite assurances, Schengen accession doubts remain

Cyprus has charted a course full-steam ahead to joining the Schengen area, with the government insisting it can get to its destination by sometime next year. But amid the apparently buoyant mood, questions linger as to whether this would make the demarcation line in Cyprus – the Green Line –a so-called ‘hard border’ for the EU, thereby indirectly ‘recognising’ the crossing points as a border.

There are also suspicions as to whether the recent concerted push for Cyprus to enter Schengen...