{"id":224488,"date":"2026-07-15T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/cypriot-minister-defends-appointment-of-eu-cyprus-special-representative-following-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:49:02","slug":"cypriot-minister-defends-appointment-of-eu-cyprus-special-representative-following-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/cypriot-minister-defends-appointment-of-eu-cyprus-special-representative-following-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypriot minister defends appointment of EU Cyprus special representative following backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus says the EU\u2019s appointment of Raffaele Fitto as special representative for the divided Mediterranean territory will support reunification efforts, but the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has blasted the move as biased, putting strain on efforts to improve EU-Turkey relations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/15\/cypriot-minister-defends-appointment-of-eu-cyprus-special-representative-following-backlas\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus says the EU\u2019s appointment of Raffaele Fitto as special representative for the divided Mediterranean territory will support reunification efforts, but the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has blasted the move as biased, putting strain on efforts to improve EU-Turkey relations. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":224489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}