<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">EU chief Charles Michel and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Monday to seek closer cooperation after the Turkish leader demanded a return to European Union membership talks.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The pair met in Vilnius on the eve of the NATO summit, after Erdogan declared that Turkey would not approve Sweden's bid to join the alliance without a revival of Ankara's EU ambitions.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a tweet, Michel hailed a "good meeting", adding that they had "explored opportunities ahead to bring EU-Turkey cooperation back to the forefront and re-energise our relations." AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd24/kh</div>