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Turkey Property Ascension progress as EU produces revised document

More progress has been made in Turkey's quest for ascension to the European Union (EU) after ministers produced a revised document outlining new steps for the country to make.Fresh priorities, principles and conditions have been set out in the Accession Partnership with Turkey document, with a series of short and medium term aims.Among the measures stipulated is resolving regional issues and international obligations, as well as meeting economic criteria.The council of foreign ministers said in a statement: "The revised Accession Partnership will serve as a basis for future political...

19-02-2008 - read more...

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Turkey meets EU R&D goals

Turkey meets the European Union's goals when it comes to research and science, an EU minister has declared.In his speech during the EU Seventh Framework programme, Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez, the European Commission research director-general, praised Turkey's progress."We see that Turkey is ready when it comes to research and science," he said according to the Turkish Daily News."The EU will provide 2.6 per cent of the total gross domestic product for Turkey's research expenses in 2010," adding that by 2013, the EU will pump €10 billion (£6.7 billion) annually into...

21-02-2007 - read more...

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Young Europeans back Turkey EU bid

Young Europeans are backing Turkey's bid to become a full member of the European Union, a poll has found.The TNS survey revealed that 52 per cent of people in six EU nations aged between 18 and 30 backed Turkey's EU aspirations.Britons, Poles, Italians, French, Germans and Spaniards, the EU's largest states, were polled as to their feelings to Turkish membership. Overall, Turkey performed better than Morocco, where only a minority were in favour of membership, the Turksih Daily News reports.This latest poll shows a rise in approval for EU membership since a European Commission poll in 2005,...

08-02-2007 - read more...

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EU Turkish membership for 2015

The European Union has given one of its biggest indicators yet that Turkey will obtain membership of the club by 2015.In the European Commission's agriculture report, Turkey was shown as one of the member countries in the section that deals with farming in 2015.According to the report's authors, Turkey is assumed to be an EU member state in eight years' time, adding that its agricultural produce equates to that of the last ten nations that entered the union before Romania and Bulgaria."For all scenarios - baseline, liberalisation, regionalisation - in this study it is assumed that Turkey...

12-02-2007 - read more...

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