"EU politics: Where now for Turkey?
FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
The European Commission's report on Turkey's progress towards EU accession, released on November 8th, was less critical than might have been expected from official comments made in preceding days. For example, the Commission commended Turkey's progress on political reforms, despite their recent slowdown. However, on other issues the EU has been sterner. It was, for example, insistent that Turkey opens its ports and airports to Cypriot trade as part of Turkey's customs union obligations with the EU, irrespective of whether the EU does the same for trade from Turkish northern Cyprus. This particular dispute has become a major point of contention on all sides, but it obscures the larger, and far more important, issue of the future of EU-Turkish relations."
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