Boris Johnson claims Turkey will join the EU.
Déclaration
Amongst other Leave campaigners, at the latest EU debate, Boris Johnson claims that Turkey is soon to join the EU, allowinng 75 million Turks to be free to live and work in the EU.
Erreur
Turkey has been trying to join the EU since 1987, and it still looks unlikely to happen any time soon. Turkey has recently completed one of the 35 chapters required to join the EU; science and technology.
Under the EU’s rules for the accession of new countries, approval of each member country in the Council of the European Union is required. If accession is unanimously approved, an applicant country must then get the agreement of each existing member on the ‘conditions of accession’.
Both France and Austria will put the question of Turkish accession to a referendum, so Turkey would need to get approval from the popular vote in each country.
Therefore, whilst Turkey has been trying to join to EU for a while it is impossible to say that it definitely will be successful, and in what time frame it will happen.
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