"Turkey's long march to an EU wedding
By ANDRE FONTAINE
PARIS -- Although a wedding date has yet to be set between the European Union and Turkey, the two parties managed to conclude what several participants at the Dec. 17 European summit have called a formal 'engagement.'
Such an outcome had long looked doubtful because a majority of the public in EU countries that have a large number of Turkish workers oppose Turkish membership in the EU."
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