"EU: Tough terms for Turkey
Monday 29 November 2004, 20:36 Makka Time, 17:36 GMT
EU leaders will hold a summit between 16-17 December
Turkey will have to accept tough conditions to open European Union entry talks a draft EU summit statement showed.
The draft circulated by the Dutch EU presidency left blank the crucial wording on how to open entry negotiations with Ankara for leaders to fill in at their 16 -17 December summit.
It welcomed 'the decisive progress made by Turkey in its far-reaching reform process' but set a strict framework for negotiations, saying membership talks could not be concluded until the bloc had agreed on its post-2014 budget. "
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