Juncker: Turkey won’t be ready for accession for 10 years

“Turkey is currently not ready for accession and I think that won’t be the case in 10 years either”

Ahead of the meeting of the EU Heads of State or Government with the Turkish Prime Minister, the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, had a conversation with German newspaper Handelsblatt. You can find in this note a summary of his quotes.

“I am cautiously optimistic,” he said, about the outcome of the meeting of the EU Heads of State or Government with the Turkish Prime Minister.
“In the coming days, we will conclude a binding agreement with Turkey, which we had already prepared during the last summit”.

“Every illegal migrant will go through an individual asylum process, which will take roughly one week, and will always have to have a right to appeal. Only afterwards can [a migrant] be sent back to Turkey”.

“Turkey is currently not ready for accession, and I think that won’t be the case in 10 years either”.

Today, the 28 heads of government and state will meet to discuss the refugee crisis, before meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Friday.

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