President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, highlighted five key issues upon his arrival at the European Council on Thursday in Brussels with the first one being the need for further flexibility in adopting national measures on energy costs and the suspension of the implementation of the Emissions Trading System 2 (ETS 2). He also insisted on the need for a political agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) by the end of the year, and pointed to December as the month of developments on Cyprus’s accession to Schengen.