On Wednesday 30 October, the European Commission said that Turkey, a “candidate country and key partner of the EU” whose accession negotiations with the country have been at a standstill since 2018, had “not reversed the negative trend of continued deterioration of democratic standards noted in past years”.
In its communication on the EU’s enlargement policy, the Commission stresses that the EU’s “serious” concerns in the areas of fundamental rights and the rule of law,...