‘It’s a HUGE error…the EU has rolled over to Turkey’ EU opens door to 79M from Turkey…(RIP Europe)

Thursday, May 5, 2016
By Paul Martin

EUROPEAN UNION bosses yesterday said they were near allowing Turkey’s 79million population to be handed visa-free travel across the Continent.

By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL REPORTER
Express.co.uk
Thu, May 5, 2016

The controversial proposal will see Turks granted visa-free access to the bloc’s borderless ‘Schengen Area’ by the end of June this year.

Of the EU’s 28 member states only Britain, Ireland and Cyprus will continue to enforce visa requirements under the deal.

Speaking in Brussels, top Commission bureaucrat Frans Timmermans said Turkey had met all but five of the required 72 conditions demanded by EU bosses.

But he warned Turkey it would not be given a “free ride” on the deal just because the EU is desperate for the country’s help in easing Europe’s migration crisis.

Mr Timmermans said Turkey had made “impressive progress, particularly in recent weeks”, adding: “There is still work to be done as a matter of urgency but if Turkey sustains the progress made, they can meet the remaining benchmarks.”

Turkey’s minister for EU relations told a news conference in the country he believed all 72 criteria had already been met.

Expressing his hope the deal will be completed on schedule by the end of next month, Volkan Bozkir said: “The Commission confirms this to a large extent.”

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