"EU to start 'open-ended' talks with Turkey next year
17.12.04 1.00pm
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday that membership talks with Turkey would be open-ended with no guaranteed outcome and would start on October 3, 2005, EU diplomats said.
They said the leaders reached consensus on a proposal that the aim of the negotiations would be full membership, the talks would be 'an open-ended process whose outcome cannot be guaranteed beforehand', and that if talks failed, a way would be found to anchor Turkey to European structures. "
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