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Screening Turkey for EU Compatibility

"Screening Turkey for EU Compatibility

By: Deutsche Welle
Published: October 21, 2005 at 08:37
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After the recent red carpet and champagne to celebrate the beginning of EU entry talks, it's down to hard work for candidate countries Turkey and Croatia. The first formal phase of talks began Thursday.

Explaining the EU's 80,000 pages of law to candidate countries Turkey and Croatia and reviewing the compatibility of their legislation with EU rules marks the first step of membership negotiations known as 'screening.'"

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