On the evening of Tuesday 14 November, Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi called for closer relations between the EU and Turkey, “a candidate country for EU membership, an essential partner of the EU, a major NATO ally and a strategic partner in a difficult region”.
“The EU and Turkey should engage together more than ever”, he said in a speech to the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSIAD), explaining that in the current geopolitical environment, it was in the...