Turkey and the EU
In the latest blow to what has been an uneasy relationship at best, the European Parliament has voted to freeze the talks of Turkey’s accession to the European Union. The vote carries only symbolic importance as in order for any such proposal to be binding either the European Commission or one-third of the European Union member states would first have to introduce such a motion and then a majority of the European Union member states would have to vote in favour of it. But it is not the fact that the vote is not binding that is significant; rather the vote’s importance lies in what it implies for the tenuous relationship between Turkey and the European Union.
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