On Thursday 25 March, EU leaders expressed the EU’s readiness to engage with Turkey in a “phased, proportionate and reversible” manner.
“We believe that standing still is not the answer, but that we need contacts with Turkey at all levels and to talk about the controversy, but also about the common interest”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel summarised after the videoconference.
Provided, in particular, that the current calm in the Eastern Mediterranean continues, the EU is ready...