The appointment of Hahn “underlines the committee’s commitment to the reunification of Cyprus, with the aim of ensuring a complete and viable settlement in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and in accordance with the principles, the EU values and legislation,” said the Commission’s declaration.
The Cypriot President Nikos Christdoulides praised Hahn’s designation, noting that it constitutes a “tangible proof that the EU is firmly and resolutely with Cyprus and his people”.
Multiple attempts to find a compromise regulation over the years have failed, more recently in 2017 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, and official talks have not resumed since then. It was the longest period that has passed without official dialogue.
An informal meeting was summoned by the UN Secretary General in Geneva in March and another is scheduled for late July.
Hahn spent 14 years as a European commissioner between 2010 and last year, supervising the first regional policy, then the European talks in neighborhood and enlargement policy, and finally the budget and the administration. He is a member of the Central-law Popular Party of Austria, which belongs to the Party of the European Conservative People, the same European group as Christodoulides.
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