Merkel Says EU Won't Decide on Turkey's Membership Bid at Upcoming Summit
- EU-28 to discuss Turkey at Oct. 19-20 summit in Brussels
- EU leaders await report on Turkey from European Commission
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that European Union leaders meeting next week for a summit will discuss deteriorated relations with Turkey but fall short of making a decision on its EU membership bid.
“We definitely won’t make a decision,” the chancellor said in her weekly podcast ahead of the two-day meeting in Brussels that kicks off on Oct. 19. “Yet I want to hear the opinions of my colleagues, how they view bilateral relations with Turkey and what we can conclude from them.”