Crucial Steps Lie Ahead for EU-Turkey Relations

The coming days will provide an important gauge on the future of relations between the European Union and Turkey. The Turkish parliament is working to pass a series of reforms requested by the European Union in exchange for its lifting of visa restrictions on Turkish citizens. The European Commission will publish an assessment of Turkey's progress on Wednesday, but the final decision on whether to introduce a visa-waiver scheme for Turkey will be made in late June by EU member states and the European Parliament. If they fail to introduce the scheme, it would seriously jeopardize EU-Turkey cooperation on migration in the Aegean Sea....