Brussels, 04/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - - Forty-two years on from the first mooting of the idea of Turkey joining the European Union (in the 1963 Association Agreement), negotiations for Turkey to join the EU were finally opened in the early hours of 3 to 4 October, shortly after midnight at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg and the Turkish foreign minister, Abdullah Gül. Several hours before, the Turkish government had informed the President of the Council of the EU, Jack...