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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11699
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EXTERNAL ACTION / Turkey

Çavuşoğlu calls for new negotiation chapters to be opened

On Monday 9 January, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu called for additional EU accession negotiation chapter to be opened.

During a conference in Ankara that brought together Turkish ambassadors, he called for "artificial obstacles" to Turkey's accession to be lifted.  Currently, 16 out of 35 chapters are open and one is provisionally closed.  In December, the member states decided that no new chapter opening should be planned, due to the response of the Turkish government...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: Initiative to transfer M5s MEPs to ALDE stillborn
SECTORAL POLICIES
SINGLE MARKET: Imminent proposal for 'services' card has businesses and unions worried
DIGITAL: MEPs position themselves on question of revised audiovisual rules
AGRICULTURE: Commission will strive to prevent unfair business practices
ECONOMY - FINANCE
FINANCE: Securitisation – real test for Maltese Presidency of Council
EXTERNAL ACTION
UNITED STATES: Robert Lighthizer to be Trump administration's Trade Representative
MERCOSUR: Europeans and South Americans want progress in free trade negotiations in 2017 in face of US uncertainty
TURKEY: Çavuşoğlu calls for new negotiation chapters to be opened
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: EU calls for respect of constitutional court's decisions
IRAQ: 266 tonnes of emergency assistance already channelled through EU's civil protection mechanism
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: EU condemns attacks on UN MINUSCA peacekeepers
MIDDLE EAST: Europeans condemn lorry attack in Jerusalem
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT: Unemployment remains stable in euro area and falls by 0.1% in EU
NEWS BRIEFS
FYROM: EU expects swift formation of government
TRADE: Ghana and Mozambique ratify WTO trade facilitation agreement
UNITED KINGDOM: May pledges UK will not break ties with single market
CALENDAR
MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS: FROM MONDAY 09/01 TO SUNDAY 15/01
OTHER EVENTS IN THE WEEK: FROM MONDAY 09/01 TO SUNDAY 15/01
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT
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