Turkey’s EU Bid Making Progress
Two negotiating chapters have been opened by EU member states with regards to Turkey ’s EU accession talks. Turkish officials will join their EU counterparts on Wednesday to formally kick off negotiations on two out of 35 areas where the country needs to apply Europe’s law as part of its pre-accession process, according to AFP.
The European commission said that the two chapters Trans-European Networks and Consumer and Health Protection have been ready to be opened for several weeks. However the final go ahead was blocked by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy who made the creation of a so called wise committee that would debate future enlargements a condition for further progress Ankara.
The opening of the two new chapters marks minor progress in the slow moving negotiations for Turkey . The country has begun work on four policy areas since starting talks in October 2005 and provisionally completed one of them.
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