EU fine-tunes attitude toward Turkey

                   
europenews.dk     Jul 23, 2008            

Turkish Daily News July 23 2008 The EU makes evaluation mistakes and establishes wrong policies like any other living organism. However, it has no complexes about changing its attitude once it realizes its mistakes. It can also be self-critical.That is what happened in Turkey-EU relations in June. As we approached July, when the decision in the AKP's closure case was expected to be made, EU officials began to fine tune their evaluations of Turkey. All signals coming from the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council are enough to indicate the dimensions of this change in attitude. Initial reaction to closure case: You probably remember that the EU Commission had reacted very strongly to the filing of the AKP's closure case. During their visit to Turkey, Commissioner in Charge of Enlargement Olli Rehn and... [read full story]                    

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turkishdailynews.com.tr     Jul 22, 2008          

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EU fine-tunes attitude toward Turkey

turkishdailynews.com.tr     Jul 23, 2008          

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turkishdailynews.com.tr     Jul 23, 2008          

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