On Thursday 27 July, Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern said it was important to say that Turkey is not a candidate for EU membership.
"It must be legitimate to say: you are quite simply not an accession candidate", Kern stated when he was asked about Turkey in an interview with German newspaper Frankfuter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Since the attempted coup in Turkey, Austria has repeatedly called for Turkey's EU accession negotiations to be suspended.
In Kern's view, this is...