The European Summit on 16/17 December kept its promises and among the results achieved, two could not have been taken for granted beforehand: the decision on the opening of negotiations with Turkey and the commitment to arrive at a “political agreement” on the financial perspectives for 2007-2013 by the end of June 2005.
Ambiguity on the opening. On the subject of Turkey, I will limit myself for the moment to observing that the Dutch Presidency has achieved its goal, which was to lead...