Saturday, December 23, 2006

Turkish Weekly Opinion - EU is not Ready to Conduct Negotiations with Turkey!

"EU is not Ready to Conduct Negotiations with Turkey!
Mehmet Ozcan

Saturday , 23 December 2006

At the last meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) dated 20 December, there became a consensus on the subject that one chapter will be opened in terms of Turkey-EU negotiations. The chapter on which the EU reached a compromise is ‘enterprise and industrial policy’. However, contrary to the expectations, the EU decided not to start the negotiations for more 3 chapters whose screening processes and reports have already completed because of the opposition of Greek Cypriots."

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