{"id":10923,"date":"2017-10-20T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-leaders-agree-to-explore-cutting-accession-funds-to-turkey\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:01:45","slug":"eu-leaders-agree-to-explore-cutting-accession-funds-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-leaders-agree-to-explore-cutting-accession-funds-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders agree to explore cutting accession funds to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders agreed to cut funds linked to Turkey\u2019s frozen membership bid in response to the authoritarian turn Ankara has taken since last year\u2019s failed coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agreed \u2026 that we will ask the Commission to cut pre-accession aid in a responsible way,\u201d German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in the early hours of Friday morning at the end of the first day of a summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>EU governments and human rights groups have heavily criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan for jailing judges, journalists and activists in the aftermath of the coup attempt in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel has been under pressure at home to take a tougher line on Turkey, particularly as a number of German citizens have been detained in the country in recent months for what Berlin regards as political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel said the human rights situation in Turkey was \u201canything but satisfactory\u201d and the country was moving further and further away from \u201cwhat we would call the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2017\/10\/19-euco-conclusions-final\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conclusions<\/a> of the summit did not mention the agreement to cut back on funds to Turkey, stating merely that the leaders \u201cheld a debate on relations\u201d with the country.<\/p>\n<p>A senior EU diplomat said that was the only formulation everyone could agree upon.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was nuanced in the way he explained the leaders\u2019 agreement on Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission will investigate whether accession funding could be focused on the development of rule of law,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that will probably also have consequences for the total expense ceiling because this automatically means there\u2019d be fewer spending goals.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Rutte also said there was no support for stopping accession funds to Turkey entirely.<\/p>\n<p><em>Philip Kaleta and Hanne Cokelaere contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-agree-to-explore-cutting-accession-funds-to-turkey\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\">Politico<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU leaders agreed to cut funds linked to Turkey\u2019s frozen mem..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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