No Further EU Accession Talks with Turkey

Politics ♦ Published: June 20, 2013; 19:17 ♦ (Vindobona)

The European Union is obviously going to blow the planned accession negotiation with Turkey next Wednesday because of the recent escalations of violence in the capital Ankara.

No Further EU Accession Talks with Turkey / Picture: © Vindobona.org

After negotiations of the EU 27 member states in Brussels, Germany has signalled that due to the current political climate in Turkey, it would not agree to the next round of accession talks, according to council circles. Even the Netherlands have expressed a parliamentary reservation.

After more than two years of standstill in EU accession talks with Ankara, the planned accession…