A stormy 20 years or just a cloud?

It’s been 20 years since Cyprus joined the major eastward enlargement of the European Union, firmly becoming an integral part of the community that currently numbers 450 mln. The country has benefitted tremendously from EU accession, although arrogance continued to prevail and lessons were not learnt, as was the case of the financial greed and ensuing banking collapse, with individuals and businesses still suffering from that fallout, even today. Reforms were slow, some non-existent even, while the EU was often used as a scapegoat for ignorance, blaming Brussels for anything that could go wrong, despite it usually being due to