On Monday 9 January, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu called for additional EU accession negotiation chapter to be opened.
During a conference in Ankara that brought together Turkish ambassadors, he called for "artificial obstacles" to Turkey's accession to be lifted. Currently, 16 out of 35 chapters are open and one is provisionally closed. In December, the member states decided that no new chapter opening should be planned, due to the response of the Turkish government...