"Turkey - Membership or Partnership?
written by: Dieter Farwick, 05-Oct-05
Turkey and the Asian and European neighbours
It was a last minute compromise. The question: 'Turkey – membership or partnership?' had become the remaining stumbling block on the road to negotiations between the European Union and Turkey.
It came to some as a surprise that Austria rejected the proposal for negotiations agreed upon by the 25 European heads of state in December 2004, negotiations with only one objective: Full membership of Turkey – if and when Turkey meets the standards and criteria the EU has set. "
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