High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

EU wants "greater alignment" from Turkey

ANKARA -- The EU and Turkey need greater "alignment" on foreign policy "to tackle threats including Islamic State," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has said.

The European Union and Turkey have drifted apart on foreign policy and need greater "alignment" to tackle threats including Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the EU's foreign policy chief said on Dec. 8.

Ankara has called on the EU to “make visible” the dialogue between Ankara and Brussels, by inviting Turkish leaders to EU meetings and taking them into EU family photographs.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is due to meet Turkish leaders an an attempt to secure Ankara's support for the fight against Islamic State (IS) and sanctions against Russia.

According to her own Twitter account Mogherini is also to touch the issue of Turkey's EU accession which has been blocked for years now by the stalled negotiation process.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called on Russia not to involve Southeast Europe in the Moscow-Brussels dispute over the Ukraine crisis.

Mogherini's comments come after Russia announced earlier this week it was scrapping the South Stream gas pipeline project, citing Bulgaria's reluctance to unfreeze construction.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday that she had been encouraged during her visit to Sarajevo that Bosnian politicians were committed to reforms, but insisted that action was now needed.

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New EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini travels to Turkey next week to highlight the "strategic importance" of ties, one week after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rival visit during which he cancelled a huge gas pipeline to Europe.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the European commissioner for European neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations, Johannes Hahn, visited the Bosnian capital on Friday to meet political leaders and party officials in a bid to give the country's reform process new impetus.

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The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini called for a restart in the relationship between the West and Russia.

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BRUSSELS - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini stated after a meeting with Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic in Brussels that she hopes that the dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina will continue as soon as possible.