Michel commissions a report from Brussels to intensify relations with Turkey after Erdogan’s demands

VILNIUS, July 10 (from the special envoy of , Víctor Tuda) –

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced this Monday after meeting with the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he will commission a specific report from the European Commission to reactivate relations with Turkey after the demands to resume the accession process to the European Union.

Michel met with the Turkish leader in the framework of the meetings in Vilnius, Lithuania, of the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, with Erdogan and the Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, to channel Sweden’s accession to NATO, after the president has conditioned any step on Sweden to the EU reactivating Turkey’s accession to the bloc.

“We have explored the opportunities to restore cooperation between Turkey and the EU and intensify our relations,” said the former Belgian prime minister in a message on social networks after the appointment with Erdogan.

In this sense, he has indicated that he will ask the European Commission and the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, for a report “with a view to proceeding strategically and prospectively”.

In a new twist in the Swedish ratification process, Ankara has conditioned its decision on Sweden’s entry into NATO on the need to reactivate Turkey’s accession process to the European Union, underway since 2006, although it has been stalled for years. .

In spite of everything, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, who has defended hours before the appointment with Erdogan and Kristersson that the summit serves to unblock the situation. “We have no guarantees or certainties, but we have the momentum of the summit and we have to use it to achieve as much progress as possible”, he declared at a press conference prior to the summit.