Thursday, September 15, 2005

EU still stalled on Turkey talks

"EU still stalled on Turkey talks

In Short:

The Union itself appears to have become the last key obstacle to the opening of EU accession talks with Turkey on 3 October.

Brief News:

After repeated attempts to formulate a unified stance on a declaration addressing Turkey's refusal to recognise Cyprus, a meeting of the member states' permanent representatives (COREPER) failed again on 14 September to agree on a wording. Formally, the accession talks with Turkey cannot open in absence of a unanimous EU-25 agreement on the technical terms of the talks (the so-called negotiating road map)."

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