Austria wants to end EU-accession talks with Turkiye

Austria wants to formally end accession talks with Turkiye as a full membership to the bloc would be ‘not conceivable for us’, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told, die Welt reports.

According to the report, Nehammer stressed that Turkiye would remain an important partner on an international level, but there would be no prospect of Ankara ever joining the EU.

“It is important that we deal honestly with each other, and this also includes formally ending the accession negotiations that have been frozen for years and developing a new concept for neighbourly cooperation,” Nehammer said.

“We are in favour of further rapprochement between Ankara and Brussels, but full membership of Turkey in the EU is not conceivable for us,” he added.

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