Relations between the European Union and Türkiye are continuing to be tense. Despite the customs union, a long tradition of cooperation between the sides on a number of issues, both the progress of Türkiye’s membership and its inclusion into a debated European Security Architecture seem to be stalled. We spoke about the reasons for that with Professor Vişne Korkmaz from ...
The Armenian government has approved a draft law on starting the process of the country’s accession to the European Union. The decision was made at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, 9 January, Armenia News reported. The document will now go to the country’s parliament for approval. According to the government’s justification, the approval of the initiative “will make the expectations ...
Most recently, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan participated in the EU Foreign Minister’s informal meeting in Brussels – the first time since years. Despite that, the accession of Türkiye to the European Union has stalled since years, too. Ankara’s demands for an actualization of the customs union are being denied by Brussels, where, in exchange, still a hostile tone is ...
Mehmet Perinçek analyzed Turkey and Ukraine’s accession process to the EU for Russia’s Izvestia channel. Perinçek’s commentary in Russian is translated into English by United World International. The EU will never accept Türkiye because it wants it to always wait at the door of membership. In this way, it hinders Ankara’s cooperation with Moscow and Beijing, Turkish political analyst Mehmet ...