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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8851

18 December 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/european council
EU takes historic decision to begin negotiations with Turkey - long wranglings over Cyprus - open process but without special partnership

Brussels, 17/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Union with start negotiations with Turkey on 3 October 2005. This historic decision was taken on Friday afternoon by the twenty-five heads of state and government of the European Union, meeting at the European Council in Brussels. Having verged on a total derailment of the process because of tensions over the status of Cyprus and the issue of extending the EU/Turkey customs union to Cyprus, after believing on Friday morning that the...

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