Turkey-EU summit planned to be held March: EU official
The foreign minister of Romania, who is term president of the European Council until mid-2019, has said the bloc is working on a Turkey-EU summit to be held early March, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Speaking in Brussels, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said the planned summit can take place in Romania’s capital Bucharest with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other officials.
Melescanu stressed his country’s support for Turkey’s accession process to the EU and added: “We are working on the summit. Hopefully the summit will bring President Erdoğan and EU officials together. We have not set the date yet but most probably it will be at the beginning of March.”
The council - the highest decision-making body between Turkey and the EU - has not convened since the last summit in 2015.