You can’t legislate against property boom in north

Sir,
I read with increasing astonishment as the government tries to stop property development in the north. There’s the Orams case, and now a revised law that will apparently seek arrest warrants of non Cypriots EU-wide! The revised law is clearly discriminatory [reportedly only foreigners are targeted] and so wouldn’t be permissible under EU auspices.

I don’t agree with the dealing of former Greek properties in the north and don’t own any. But sadly nothing is slowing down their development there and the boom races on.

The government is seriously misguided in its increasingly desperate attempts to drag the EU into the Cyprus problem. They would have been far better advised to accept the Annan plan last year – but that’s history now. There will be no solution to the Cyprus problem until Turkey joins the EU and that’s many years away to say the least.

Therefore the property boom in the north can only be slowed by market forces.

Michael Blunden
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire

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