Earlier this week we observed that in what may be Europe’s latest mistake, the European Union is about to grant visa-gree travel to 80 million Turks: a key concession that Erdogan obtained as a result of the ongoing negotiations over Europe’s refugee crisis which has pushed Turkey into the key player spotlight. And then, overnight, the European Commission officially granted its support to a visa-free travel deal with Turkey after Ankara threatened to back out of a landmark migration deal. It proposed to lift visa requirements by the end of June.
The decision was confirmed by European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on Twitter.
‘The European Commission is today proposing to… lift the visa requirements for the citizens of Turkey,’ Vestager tweeted.
Let me be very clear: no Turkish citizen will enter the EU visa-free without a biometric passport.
— Frans Timmermans (@TimmermansEU) May 4, 2016
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 05/04/2016.
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