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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8343

20 November 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Erdogan presses for date for membership talks and hints there could be EU-NATO agreement at Prague Summit

Brussels, 19/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is in Brussels on Wednesday, is reported by AFP to have been granted José Maria Aznar's approval on Monday for a "time frame" for opening membership talks with Turkey to be given at the Copenhagen Summit. In Athens, Mr Erdogan had called on the EU to decide the exact date in Copenhagen. Still according to AFP, Costas Simitis pointed out Greece's support "of principle" to this request by Turkey, while insisting on the need to...

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