History of Cyprus United Kingdom. In 1925, following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Cyprus was made a Crown Colony. Between 1955 and 1959 EOKA was created by Greek Cypriots and led by George Grivas to perform enosis (union of the island with Greece). However the EOKA campaign did not result in union with Greece but rather an independent republic, The Republic of Cyprus, in 1960. The 1960 constitution put in place a form of power-sharing, or consociational government, in which concessions were made to the Turkish Cypriots minority, including as a requirement that the vice-president of Cyprus and at least 30% of
Accession of Serbia to the European Union of accession to the EU in 2025, for both states. European Commission issued a draft Strategy for EU enlargement at the end of 2017. It provides guidelines for, among others, Serbian accession to the EU. According to the Strategy, Serbia is expected to reach a broad agreement on normalization of relations with Kosovo by the end of 2019, and complete its negotiations by the end of 2023, allowing it to join the Union by 2025. However, as of February 2018, five EU countries don't recognize Kosovo as an independent state—Spain, Romania, Greece, Cyprus and Slovakia. Serbia's government hasn't given yet