Bulgaria: EU summit with Turkish dictator Erdogan does not appear to have gone well, Video

March 27, 2018 By administrator

Donald Tusk: ‘No concrete solutions’ at EU-Turkey summit

Bulgaria: EU summit with Turkish dictator Erdogan does not appear to have gone well, judging from European Council President @eucopresident Tusk’s statements and posture. Donald Tusk’s words: “Lack of vision, conflict of interests on a long list of concerns, no solution, no compromise & no concrete outcome”

EU Council President Donald Tusk has said while no progress was made at the talks, he hopes compromises will be possible in the future. The head of the EU Commission said he’d like Turkey to be a strategic partner.

European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday said the latest summit between European Union representatives and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan achieved no concrete solutions or compromises on points of concern.

“If you ask whether we reached any concrete solutions or compromises, the answer is no,” said Tusk, following a summit with EU and Turkish representatives in the Bulgarian costal town of Varna.

“But I still hope that will be possible in the future … Only progress on these issues will allow us to improve the EU-Turkey relations, including the accession process.”

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President Erdogan was a little more optimistic. “We hope that we have left behind the difficult period in relations between Turkey and the European Union,” he said, adding that the two parties had discussed the steps needed to improve EU-Turkey ties.The summit touched on a range of issues that have caused tension between Turkey and the EU, such as migration, EU membership and Turkey’s fight against “terror” groups including Kurdish militants.

On the EU-Turkey relationship: Tusk said the EU and Turkey needed an open and frank dialogue, and that while the two parties had many common interests there were challenges that needed to be worked on together.

“Our meeting today demonstrated that while our relationship is going through difficult times, in areas where we do cooperate, we cooperate well,” Tusk said. “We reconfirm our readiness to keep up the dialogue and conversation and work together to overcome current difficulties with a view to unleashing the potential of our partnership.”

Erdogan Heated rhetoric ahead of EU-Turkey showdown

July 25, 2017 By administrator

Heated rhetoric ahead of EU-Turkey showdown Turkey has stepped up its verbal assaults on the Western world, especially Germany, ahead of high-level talks with the EU. One Turkish paper even used the well-worn Hitler comparison.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to pour oil on a flaming diplomatic dispute on Tuesday, saying that Turkey would no longer be submissive and cede to every Western whim.

“The West wants Turkey to bring about their demands no questions asked … I am sorry to say that that Turkey no longer exists,” Erdogan said, hours before Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was due to meet with high-ranking EU officials in Brussels.

His anti-Western rhetoric was echoed in Turkish pro-government media, with one paper saying that Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel was worse than during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

“Merkel’s Germany has surpassed Hitler in oppression and hatred,” the paper Yeni Akit said, alleging that Turks living in the country no longer received medical treatment, were sacked arbitrarily and were unable to rent flats.

There is no evidence that the large community of Turkish people in Germany is being subjected to such treatment.

AGREEMENTS EU-TURKEY IDUs MEPs ask Valls debate with vote

May 19, 2016 By administrator

arton126626-480x237 Paris, May 19, 2016 (AFP) – The UDI deputies, their president Philippe Vigier head, asked Manuel Valls debate with vote, “urgently” to the National Assembly, on the EU-Turkey agreement concerning migrants, “triple fault” in a letter sent Wednesday which AFP had copy.

“The abominable haggling between the EU and Turkey, which provides for the expulsion of new irregular migrants arrived in Greece to Turkey, shows every day more and limitations and the dire consequences it entails” they write immediately.

Far from the statement by President Francois Hollande calling “on Europe 1, the Agreement between the European Union and Turkey + just +” these centrists elected deem “unacceptable” the EU-Turkey declaration of 18 March, 2016.

Denouncing “a triple fault,” the signatories of the letter to the prime minister would pin two mistakes of Europe because it “outsources its security and waives the right to asylum by forcing migrants” and “market relaunch the process accession “, and a fault of France,” whose voice no longer carries and whose silence is guilty. “

Not only IDU members refuse “to abdicate our sovereignty and allow the control of our external borders, that is to say to our security, to a country which has so ambiguous relationship with our enemy, the Islamic State” but they criticize the Turkish power Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “attacks on democratic values that unite Europeans,” including freedom of the press and human rights.

It is “totally unacceptable that the EU should continue the process of negotiations with Turkey on its possible accession,” they added in their letter to the tenant of Matignon.

Whereas the EU-Turkey agreement on migrants may have implications “terrible”, elected UDI, the party chairman Jean-Christophe Lagarde and former ministers Maurice Leroy, Hervé Morin and François Sauvadet, believe that “the Parliament french must be able to debate. “

“In the current issues, we asked you many times over the silence of France, never get real answers” they write in the head of government.