EUobserver: Erdogan signals new era in EU relations

Source: K.P. (Kati) Piri i, published on Thursday, April 20 2017, 3:09.

De gevolgen van de uitslag van het referendum voor de relatie tussen Turkije en de EU kunnen groot zijn. In een artikel op EUobserver worden verschillende experts aan het woord gelaten over de gevolgen van de ‘ja’ stem. Ook Kati Piri komt aan het woord.

Kati Piri, a Dutch centre-left MEP who is the Turkey rapporteur in the European Parliament, said: “It’s clear that the country cannot join the EU with a constitution that doesn’t respect the separation of powers and has no checks and balances”.

“If the package is implemented unchanged, this will have to lead to the formal suspension of EU accession talks,” she said. Piri spoke after Erodgan, in the run-up to the referendum, threatened to let millions of Syrian refugees flood into Europe because, he said, the EU had failed to fulfil its promise on financial assistance and on visa-free travel.

Lees het hele artikel op EUobserver.com.