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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8980

30 June 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Commission suggests “rigorous” negotiating brief to guide accession talks that will be “long and difficult”, without guaranteed results - EU absorption capacity to be evaluated by Commission

Brussels, 29/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - After an “animated and political” debate that will have lasted over two hours as predicted, the European Commission suggested to the Council on Wednesday the legal framework on the basis of which accession talks with Turkey should begin on 3 October this year. The negotiating brief proposed by the Commission, which has still to be approved by the Council, contains no surprises: The aim of the talks is accession by Turkey, no more no less, but this...

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