EU, Turkey launch bid to revive accession process
Jonathon Burch, Reuters May 17, 2012, 8:26 pm
ANKARA (Reuters) - The European Union has lost appeal for the Turkish people after years of stagnation in Ankara's accession talks but a new "positive agenda" launched on Thursday will aim to revive the process, the bloc's enlargement chief said on Thursday.
Formal entry negotiations began in 2005 but the process has ground to a virtual halt in recent years, blocked by an intractable dispute over the divided island of Cyprus and opposition from core EU members France and Germany.
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