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Blog: EU-Turkey, facts and context

BlogpostBy University of Applied Sciences for Mgmt and Comm Vienna, AT May 8, 2019 Leave a comment

The relationship between the EU and Turkey has been turbulent and difficult for many years. There has been a lot of dispute. Throughout the recent debate we came across a Facebook posting of Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Austrian populist right-wing party Freiheitliche Partie Österreichs (FPÖ). In this posting Strache states that the FPÖ demands…

True: “The EU continues to pay to Turkey”

Fact-check, TrueBy University of Applied Sciences for Mgmt and Comm Vienna, AT May 8, 2019 Leave a comment

On March 23rd, 2019 Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria’s vice-chancellor and party head of the right wing party FPÖ, stated that “Turkey continues to receive European tax money” and demanded on his Facebook page that EU payments towards Turkey had to stop. But is it true that the EU is still paying money to Turkey as a…