Cyprus President Nicos Christodoulides stated that, for the first time, Cyprus experienced tangible European solidarity—not just statements and announcements—while welcoming PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis to the Presidential Palace. This comes at a time when Nicosia is seeking to turn recent geopolitical pressures into political and strategic gains for the Republic of Cyprus.

The Cypriot President emphasized that Cyprus’s security was treated in practice as a matter of European security, noting that this creates new dynamics and opens the discussion for meaningful activation of Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union, the mutual assistance clause, which obliges EU member states to aid any member that faces armed attack.

Message to Brussels
Christodoulides stressed that Cyprus is not part of the crisis but part of the solution in the region, reinforcing Nicosia’s position that the island should not be treated as a passive observer or a peripheral outpost of Middle East unrest, but as an EU member state with a defined role, institutional weight, and security rights.

In the same vein, the Cypriot President directly linked the European stance to the chapter on security and guarantees in the Cyprus issue, asserting that the European Union has demonstrated in practice that it can act as the strongest safeguard for the Republic of Cyprus.

This statement carries a clear political imprint, as Nicosia has long sought to integrate the European dimension more strongly into discussions about the future of security after a potential solution.

Androulakis: No EU state in the war
PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis emphasized that no EU member state should become involved in a war against Iran, while noting that non-involvement should not mean passivity. He stressed that European states must show full solidarity with any member state that requests it and welcomed the fact that this support was expressed in favor of the Republic of Cyprus.

Androulakis also gave a historical perspective, noting that Cyprus’s current ability to receive such European support is a result of its EU membership, even with the Cyprus issue unresolved—a development he attributed to the strategy followed by PASOK governments in Greece.

He also assured that Athens will consistently support a just and sustainable solution to the Cyprus issue based on UN resolutions, ruling out any prospect of accepting partition plans.