Just hours after the predictable passage of today’s Turkish referendum, the EU has promptly slammed the outcome, warning it threatens to slide the country’s collapse into “authoritarianism” and that Turkey’s accession talks with the EU will be suspended if the constitutional package is implement as per today’s outcome.
In a post on the website of Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur warned that if the referendum package is implemented unchanged, “this will have to lead to the formal suspension of the EU accession talks. Continuing to talk about Turkey’s integration into Europe under the current circumstances has become a farce.”
In her role as EU rapporteur for Turkey, Piri is responsible for drafting and presenting reports on Turkey’s progress to the EU parliament; rapporteurs are elected by other members of the European Parliament. Needless to say, her view of today’s referendum is hardly enthusiastic:
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Apr 16, 2017.
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