EU to hone 'carrot and stick' line on Turkey, top official says

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders will decide on a “carrot and stick” approach to Turkey when they meet on Sept. 24-25, their chairman said on Friday, proposing a multi-party conference to defuse tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.

The EU has already imposed minor sanctions against Ankara over the matter and the 27 EU leaders will tackle it again soon in Brussels. Michel, who will host the meeting, said the EU would reaffirm its support for Greek and Cypriot sovereignty. “That could be the best way to de-escalate in the region and offer a channel for dialogue,” he said, adding he had already floated the idea with Athens and Ankara. “What is happening, what has been happening the last few weeks, cannot go on.”

Ankara has long sought an upgrade of its customs union with the EU, a process that has stalled over President Tayyip Erdogan’s sweeping anti-terrorism legislation that underpinned widespread jailings of opponents following an abortive 2016 military coup. Turkey’s long-standing request to join the EU is all but dead over Erdogan’s perceived authoritarianism.

watch out if Turks shove those carrots and stick up your arse mr top official...

what if Turkey decides to stick your carrot..

Warning! Achtung! For its colonial purposes France is driving EU into somewhere not safe... this place is not suitable for gay european countries.

The EU may be about to end up with stick in her ass for the first time in her history. Be carrotful!

The EU are all carrot and no stick. Laughable!

We are planning to give back the carrot and the stick to your hand.

truthandfiction It would be like using a squirt gun to put out a wildfire.

EU can eat the carrot and put the stick on her ass. Cool ha?

Only when Turkey stow pirate operations into EUs waters and airspace(in Greece AND and Cyprus) and accepts international law and treaties. Only paid agents of Turkey may orchestrate other ways

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