"Turkey's Reform Efforts Wane
By: Deutsche Welle
Published: Mar 8, 2006 at 07:20
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul meets EU representatives in Vienna on Wednesday. The bureaucratic process for EU membership negotiations is on track, but the political climate is a different story.
'On both sides, doubts are growing about a successful integration of Turkey into the EU,' said Heinz Kramer, a Turkey expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. 'The reform drive that we've gotten used to between 2002 and 2005 has been paralyzed.'"
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