Berlin has proposed postponing the restart of Turkey's EU entry talks until after German elections in September.
Its foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, floated the idea at a meeting with his EU peers in Luxembourg on Monday (23 June).
Under the German proposal, EU countries would this week give "political assent" to resume the process.
But they would wait until the European Commission in October publishes a "progress report" on Turkey's EU credentials before going ahead....
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