"UK think tank: Turkey better prepared for EU accession talks than Eastern Europe
Monday, July 18, 2005
İSTANBUL – Turkish Daily News
The Centre for European Reform (CER), a U.K.-based think tank, said fear of Turkey's accession to the European Union was unfounded and membership talks have the potential to improve the Turkish economy.
In an essay entitled �The Economics of Turkish Accession,� CER said the major fear of Europeans, the free circulation of labor, was not expected to start before 2022 and when the time came, EU countries might even want Turkish workers due to falling birth rates in Europe."
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