On Friday 23 February, European Council President Donald Tusk stated that the European leaders "will assess at our March European Council (on 22-23 March) whether the conditions are there to hold the Leaders' Meeting with Turkey in Varna on 26 March" – a meeting that was announced on 6 February(see EUROPE 11956).
This announcement comes at the end of the informal summit of the EU27, during which President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras informed...