BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — Turkey jeopardizes the existence of the entire "European project," an idea of economic, political and cultural convergence of the European Union, a UK member of the European Parliament said Tuesday.
"Turkey puts European project under peril," Richard Howitt stated in the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Despite the fact that Brussels decided to allocate 3 billion euros to Turkey in order to curb the influx of refugees into the bloc through the Turkish territory, Ankara has not fulfilled its obligations and even, according to the incoming reports, sends Syrian refugees back home, he added.
Cameron has pledged to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the bloc, referred to as an in/out vote, no later than 2017.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond suggested in January that the so-called Brexit vote could take place in June if no reform agreement is reached in February.
