"Turkey: 'The country's EU accession will not harm the bloc's economy'
13:46 - 18 July 2005 - Fears that the accession of Turkey to the European Union will harm the bloc's economy are unfounded, according to UK-based think tank, Centre for European Reform (CER).
In a CER essay entitled 'The economics of Turkish accession', the author, Katinka Barysch claims that Turkey's economy is very small compared to that of the EU-25, and there is thus no reason to fear that the country's accession could harm the Union's economy."
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