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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9781

13 November 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Accession not right option for EU nor especially Turkey

Special relations. In the European Commission's latest reports on current and planned accession negotiations, Turkey is a special case. Its desire to join the EU has been recognised for many years and formal negotiations have been under way since 2005. It has sometimes been asked how European Turkey is, however, with most of its surface area lying in Asia. Negotiations have been languishing (barely 8 of the 35 chapters to be negotiated have been opened) and some member states, such as...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
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