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Turkish membership off EU's radar screen until 2020
Hurriyet Daily News 26 April 2011
By BARÇIN YINANÇ
Turkish membership in the European Union is off the bloc’s radar screen for the next decade, its decision not to include Turkey in the EU’s budget for 2014-2020 appears to show. "Including Turkey in the 2014-2020 budget would have meant Turkey would be an EU member within this period. This is the last message French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to give,” said Demir Murat Seyrek, a managing partner of the Brussels-based Global Communications and an expert on the European Union.
Candidate countries receive special funding during their first five years of EU membership. An allocation has been foreseen for Croatia, another candidate country that started membership talks the same year as Turkey and is expected to conclude its negotiations later this year.
Member states’ opposition to Turkey’s joining the bloc caused the European Commission, tasked with preparing the budget, to rebuff the Turkish government’s demands to have Turkey included in the EU’s 2014-2020 financial considerations.
The EU decided in 2004 to start membership talks with Turkey, but has avoided giving a specific target date, something it has offered to other candidates that later joined the 27-nation bloc. The EU ruled in 2004 that while the objective of negotiations is accession, such talks are an open-ended process, "the outcome of which cannot be guaranteed.” (...)
Posted April 26th, 2011 by pk
Turkish membership off EU's radar screen until 2020
Hurriyet Daily News 26 April 2011
By BARÇIN YINANÇ
Turkish membership in the European Union is off the bloc’s radar screen for the next decade, its decision not to include Turkey in the EU’s budget for 2014-2020 appears to show. "Including Turkey in the 2014-2020 budget would have meant Turkey would be an EU member within this period. This is the last message French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to give,” said Demir Murat Seyrek, a managing partner of the Brussels-based Global Communications and an expert on the European Union.
Candidate countries receive special funding during their first five years of EU membership. An allocation has been foreseen for Croatia, another candidate country that started membership talks the same year as Turkey and is expected to conclude its negotiations later this year.
Member states’ opposition to Turkey’s joining the bloc caused the European Commission, tasked with preparing the budget, to rebuff the Turkish government’s demands to have Turkey included in the EU’s 2014-2020 financial considerations.
The EU decided in 2004 to start membership talks with Turkey, but has avoided giving a specific target date, something it has offered to other candidates that later joined the 27-nation bloc. The EU ruled in 2004 that while the objective of negotiations is accession, such talks are an open-ended process, "the outcome of which cannot be guaranteed.” (...)
Posted April 26th, 2011 by pk
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