EU and Turkey Discuss Easing Trade Relations Amid Warmer Ties
- Partners to look into updating customs union after the summer
- Erdogan has prioritized relaunching the EU accession process
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The European Union and Turkey are discussing an update of their customs union as part of the country’s process of re-engagement to regain the trust of European partners and investors.
“There are difficult issues to be addressed in this regard,” Paolo Gentiloni, the EU commissioner responsible for customs, told Bloomberg in a statement Tuesday. “We will look into these with our teams after the summer and see whether it is possible to build on these new signals from Turkey.”