Thursday, November 22, 2007

80% of Screening reports for Turkey accession already sent to Council

"80% of Screening reports for Turkey accession already sent to Council

Extracted from the 2007 Progress report by European Commission.

Turkey continues to move forward in the EU accession process. So far out of 33 chapters four have been opened and only one closed (Science and Research). The Commission states that 28 of 35 screening reports (80%) have been delivered to The Council and 6 are presently being discussed. Moreover the EU has informed Turkey of the progress required to reach a level of preparedness to start negotiations on 14 chapters."

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