Turkey: Prospects of EU Accession Talks Brighten

People ♦ Published: June 24, 2013; 14:36 ♦ (Vindobona)

Turkey’s prospects of the continuing of the EU Accession negotiations have brightened. During a meeting in Luxembourg several foreign ministers took a much more moderate tone.

Turkey: Prospects of EU Accession Talks Brighten / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The EU Accession talks have frozen after the EU rejected the violent repression of protests in Turkish cities. Now, in the view of the ongoing protests, negotiations about a new chapter should commence. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged that with such a decision strategic long-term interests of the European Union had to be taken into consideration.

For weeks there…