"EU to chide Turkey but not raise new hurdles
Tue Nov 7, 2006 11:10 PM GMT138
By Paul Taylor
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will unveil the worst-kept secret in Brussels on Wednesday when it issues a widely leaked progress report on Turkey's EU candidacy set to criticise Ankara without raising new hurdles.
The European Union executive will publish annual reports on eight candidate or aspirant countries and seek to rebuild political support for an enlargement policy which it argues has been a huge success but which now faces deep public scepticism."
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