President Nicos Anastasiades has asked the EU leaders not to lose sight of the Cyprus problem, during his participation in the last EU Council in Brussels and the EUMED-9 in Alicante last  week. This is the last time Anastasiades attended a EUCO and an EUMED summit, as Cyprus goes into the polls for presidential elections in February 2023. Anastasiades was elected President in 2013 and again in 2018.