The Europeans had taken a date in October.
Without Ankara's movement, they would be forced to take new sanctions against Turkey in December.
It was, it was repeated at the Élysée,
"a question of credibility
.
"
The Twenty-Seven implemented their threat Thursday evening.
"Europe has demonstrated its ability to be firm with regard to Turkey by adopting sanctions so that it puts an end to its unilateral actions in the Eastern Mediterranean"
, welcomed Emmanuel Macron, at the end of the European summit.
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At the end of three hours of intensive discussions, interrupted several times to talk about the other difficult subject of the evening which is the climate objective in 2030, the Twenty-Seven have chosen to activate the lever of individual sanctions that will target most likely those responsible for gas exploration operations carried out in Cypriot and Greek waters.
At most, therefore, it is a matter of expanding the existing list of restrictive measures.
It will be at
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