Klaus Welle is the Chairman of the Martens Centre Academic Council.

The British military bases in Cyprus have reportedly come under more than 20 drone attacks since Saturday, one of which caused minor damage, the Cypriot government confirmed.

In addition, Paphos International Airport was evacuated on Monday amid warnings of a potential drone strike.

Referring to the situation in Cyprus, Klaus Welle – a long-time Brussels insider who served as Secretary-General of the European Parliament for 14 years – told Euractiv: “Cyprus shows that everyone can be affected, not only the countries in the East.”

Cyprus is an EU member country currently holding the rotating EU presidency but it is not part of NATO.