*of Lysandros Lysandros
The state budget for 2026 is developmental and continues to maintain the resilience of the economy with surpluses, said Finance Minister Makis Keravnos, delivering him to Parliament Speaker Annita Dimitriou. Cyprus today is in one of the most stable and prosperous periods of its modern history. The economy is recovering dynamically, investment is growing, tourism flourishes. In cafes, in the rally, in the investor towers, there is a feeling that we are "well going". However, behind this showcase of prosperity lies a great, enduring pending: the unsolved Cypriot problem. An open wound that is still a fundamental threat to the long -term stability of the place.
Complacement is perhaps the greatest enemy of the solution. When societies are convinced that "we have it well", the boldness and political will to change the existing situation is declining. Half a century and more after the invasion, the Cyprus issue remains unsolved. The wound has not healed, it has simply been covered with the bandage of habit. Occupation remains. The negotiations stop, resume, and then get lost in silence. The complacency is sweet. Lulls you. It makes you forget that the ground you are pressing is not as stable as it looks. And prosperity, however welcome it is, does not cease to be fragile when built on uncertainty.
If we do not solve the Cyprus issue, if we do not heal the wound with justice, coexistence and honesty, then we build our future in moving sand. And the prosperity we live in today will look like a pleasant illusion - a summer lullaby before the wind is raised. Today's status quo preserves a dead end - and perhaps dangerously compassionate - stagnation. All this may not look in everyday life, we may not feel it. But he is there. Like the rift under the ground waiting for another earthquake.
With the unsolved Cypriot, this false stability and prosperity can easily be overthrown. An extension of war conflicts in the Middle East (it's next to us). A new challenge to the EEZ. A change of balance in the anchor. It doesn't need much. The story has shown that, in Cyprus, the distance between quiet and the fortune can be only one night. As long as the Cyprus issue remains unsolved, the future remains uncertain.
No rest and no complacency should exist! Our island can no longer be postponed. It is not enough to be well. We have to be whole. The actual stability and development will come with the solution of the Cyprus problem and not with the existing situation.
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