"TURKEY-EU NEGOTIATIONS - PROCESS WITH OPEN DATE WITHOUT GUARANTEES
27.06.2005 05:01
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The EU enlargement is directly connected with the results of the referenda on the EU Constitution, die Welt reported. After the financial debate in Brussels, Europe is likely to face a debate on enlargement. Thus, Wednesday the European Commission is to set the terms for the negotiations on Turkey’s accession. Formally all the 25 EU-member states agree on Turkey’s EU membership, but the backstage developments in Brussels and in the majority of the capitals of the EU member-states are directed to contain the rate of EU enlargement. Despite the fact that Turkey has met almost all the commitments undertaken to the EU, Germany and France have recently refrained from active support to Turkey, what was fortified by Ankara’s violent reaction to the adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by the Bundestag. At the same time, the EU decision of December 2004 notes that the negotiations are a process with open date with no outcome guaranteed. "
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