"From which topic negotiations with the EU will start?
The issue 'from which topic negotiations with the EU will start?' is high on the agenda of Turkey. The method, which the EU applied for 10 candidate countries in its recent enlargement, seems to enlighten the issue.
Negotiations which are expected to start between Turkey and the EU officially on October 3rd, 2005 will be pursued on 4 groups.
First negotiation group is listed as science and research, education and vocational education, small and medium scale enterprises, culture and visual-auditory politics, telecommunication, industry policy and common foreign and security policy.
Second group is on companies law, statistics, protection of consumers and their health, fishery, competition policy, free movement of property, customs union and foreign relations."
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