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@katzenberger @EUCommission Which action of the EU Commission made you so outraged?
@katzenberger @EUCommission Hmm, I agree that "continue their respective paths towards the EU" only applies to some of the listed countries and that this sentence is misleading. At the same time, the linked article does explain which countries made progress, which backslid and which are a mixed bag.
This isn't the first time Commission's media people screwed up.
That's what I was referring to by:
"Copy-pasting assessments into a press release³, prefixing it with a brazen re-framing of how autocracies allegedly »continue their respective paths towards the EU«…"
Copy-pasting the assessments of others, and then re-framing them.
Also, at which point did I talk about other countries than Turkey and Serbia?
@elgregor
The sheer audacity of the re-framing, as quoted.
It wasn't the Commission, but the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the parliament that took sober conclusions from the Commission's own 2023 and 2024 reports on Turkey. The EP has passed a scathing assessment, as a resolution:
»Parliament reaffirmed that Turkey is a strategic partner and NATO ally, as well as a country with which the Union maintains close relations in the areas of security, trade, economy and migration. It stressed, however, that this can in no way replace the necessary real progress that Turkey must make as a candidate country.« ¹
»the critical state of the accession process is driving the Commission and the Council to focus merely on the partnership dimension of the EU’s relations with Türkiye, as is also reflected in the joint communication on the state of play of EU-Türkiye relations of 29 November 2023, and of 22 March 2021; highlights the increasing shift towards a different framework for the relationship, which might come at the expense of the accession process;« ²
In a nutshell: von der Leyen can talk about important partnerships and relationships as signs of "progress" as long as she wants, but from her actions we conclude that she neither believes it, nor gives a f*** anymore about ascension.
No news for those following the news, but some still naively take the Commission's press releases at face value (triumphantly quoting it as "proof", like in this thread, too).
Copy-pasting assessments into a press release³, prefixing it with a brazen re-framing of how autocracies allegedly »continue their respective paths towards the EU« is a prime example of how under von der Leyen, the Commission is constantly being big-mouthed about "European Values" in public, while behind closed doors just dropping them into the garbage bin, sending more "ascension" money⁴
¹ https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/document-summary?id=1812495
² https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2025-0067_EN.html
³ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2584
⁴ https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/turkiye-2024-enlargement-package-factsheet_en
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