EC urges not to link Sweden’s NATO membership and Türkiye’s accession to EU

Türkiye’s ratification of Sweden’s accession to NATO and Türkiye’s progress towards accession to the EU are unrelated, official representative of the European Commission Dana Spinant said at a briefing in Brussels, Report informs referring to foreign media.

The EU has a very clear accession process, there is a certain set of steps that the candidate country must complete, these processes cannot be linked, she noted.