Brussels, 18/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is "not likely" to soon propose a date for opening negotiations with Turkey, the Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission, Eneko Landaburu, said on Tuesday evening, addressing students in Brussels. He said he feared a "major crisis" between the EU and Turkey at the Summit on 12 and 13 December. "We still have not drawn definitive conclusions, but (…) we shall probably not be proposing a date for beginning negotiations" as there are still "extremely important grey areas" in its political system, he declared, according to AFP. Turkey nevertheless forcefully insists that the opening of negotiations should be announced at the Summit. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz declared a few days ago that otherwise, this European Council would cause a crisis as serious between Turkey and the EU as the one that followed the Luxembourg Summit in December 1997, there too cause by Turkey's anger at being discarded from accession negotiations (EUROPE of 14 September, p.3). "It is a purely personal point of view, that has nothing to do with the Commission or Commissioner Verheugen", declared the Commissioner's spokesperson regarding the declarations of the Director General.