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The President of the Republic Mr.Nikos Christodoulides received today, at the Presidential Palace, the Vice-President of the European Commission Mr.Margaritis Schinas.
After the meeting, Mr.Schinas said the following to journalists: "I have accompanied the European course of the Republic of Cyprus from its first steps towards the institutions and I consider myself a long-standing friend, an organic partner of the Republic of Cyprus in this European course.
President Christodoulides and I have known each other for decades, we have more or less similar careers and we had a meeting today, the first time I have seen him in his new capacity, to take stock of all current European developments and, of course, we talked about the Cyprus problem and about migration, which we will deal with later today in the meeting with the Minister of Interior and the ministers who have to do with the portfolio of the European way of life.
Every time I come to Cyprus I feel even more confident about how fundamental, how decisive the choice of Cyprus' accession to the EU was. I see a European Cyprus that stands firmly on its feet with confidence and we will all stand by it in this effort."
Asked about the result of yesterday's elections in Greece, he said: "I believe that the result of the Greek elections yesterday is a clear, clear perception of a political coming of age of the Greek political system, it is a moderate government, which achieved an electoral triumph from the centre, with arguments that have to do with European orthodoxy. This is a unique phenomenon in Europe and shows that we have strong leaderships in the Hellenic bipole, Athens-Lefkosia, and recently immersed in the popular will".
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