"'The road to full EU membership will be difficult'
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Professor Suheyl Batum: I'm not sure how we will prevent the closed market, how we will unionize employees and how we will arrange and tax the agricultural sector. But Turkey is an interesting country in that we can overcome these problems within a short period of time
GUL DEMIR
ISTANBUL � Turkish Daily News
Now that Turkey has been given an October date for the start of negotiations for full membership in the European Union, a rigorous process of implementing laws that will bring Turkey in line with the acquis communitaire (the laws that the EU has already passed) is beginning. The path ahead will be difficult, to say the least. "
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